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...same token, the classic-romantic pigeonholes have conspired to make us think of neoclassical art as sensually diluted. A sharp contour supposedly driveth out lust. Of course it does not, and the sensuality of a Delacroix nude seems quite uncomplicated beside the grandiose perversity of Ingres's Jupiter and Thetis. That monument of ivory and fulgid blue, with the nymph's body twining in supplication up the huge patriarchal block of a torso, achieves a sexual pitch within its insistent abstraction that not even Matisse could rival...
Fractious Cyclones. Meteorology of the weather-adage type is at least as old as the Bible ("The north wind driveth away rain"; Proverbs 25:23), and knowledge of atmospheric behavior has accumulated slowly through the centuries. In the early 19th century, for instance, it was known that large areas of low atmospheric pressure sweep across the North Temperate Zone roughly from west to east and are apt to bring stormy weather. But this knowledge was useless for weather forecasting. The stormy "lows" or "cyclones"* move much faster than letters carried by stagecoaches, so in those days countries lying in their...
...dishonest or unfair in its motives or methods. It certainly will never be again the bogy or oracle as which it had so long figured in our elections. The result on Tuesday has made it and most other polls of the kind only straws which the wind driveth away. American voters can well get along without its guidance or misguidance in the future...
...driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously."-2 Kings...