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...multiply like fruit flies and almost as mindlessly. His chief danger is the unhealthy narcissism of most modern art. From the caves of Altamira to the Apollo Belvedere, pagan art looked outward and celebrated man. From the cathedral of Chartres to the music of Bach, religious art looked upward and glorified God. Modern art looks inward, contemplating the artist's ego, to the point of myopia and hallucination. Williams has often come close to drowning in introspection. But he has always been saved by his urge to reach out and touch his audience and thus achieve his own surest...
...This urge, wrestle, resurrection of dry sticks, Cut stems struggling to put down feet, What saint strained so much, Rose on such lopped limbs to a new life? I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small waters seeping upward, The tight grains parting at last...
Slightly fuller-bodied amidships than Vim, the new challenger has a "knuckle" or sharp upward turn on her bow, designed to reduce weight by eliminating overhang. Her floorboards are hollowed out, her fittings are cast of light-weight aluminum or alloys, and some metal parts have been drilled full of holes. Her cockpit floor is purposely curved to provide the helmsman with level footing when the boat heels over in the wind. But her most radical feature is a simplified mainsail control-a single wire, attached to a three-speed gearbox that Payne admits could cause a "chaotic situation...
...skyscraper in Rockefeller Center. Thus a main goal of the architecture is to make CBS look distinguished in comparison to its lofty rival. The sunken plaza that consumes almost half the space of the tract not only singles the building out but draws the eye downward before it turns upward, adding to the effect of rise...
...story lacks only one thing: suspense. The Rothschilds played every trick; they also won every trick. Inside one generation, the founder's five sons resembled a hand whose jeweled fingers covered the map of Europe. In succeeding generations, while thrones toppled and nations faced bankruptcy, the Rothschilds went upward, always upward, and on. Their story becomes a magnificent seven-generation dinner slightly drowsy from its own great wines...