From Botticelli's Venus to Titian's Flora, the greatest artists dedicated their genius to imposing impossible standards of beauty on a world that, in reality, was scarred by pox, ravaged by poverty and untouched by hygiene.
Despite the millions of pages that have been dedicated to the genius of the American college football coach, the game still seems quite wonderfully helter-skelter to me, ultimately determined by the successes and failures of the 22 players on the field who actually play it.
According to the producer and DJ, the first half of the mix was recorded in April and is dedicated to the "genius" he hears on a regular basis and the music dear to his heart.
The work is dedicated to Chopin, whose genius on an intimate scale Schumann was among the first to acclaim, and it confronts the very question of the salon.
Michael Schulman sought respite at the Museum of the Moving Image, in Astoria, where a permanent exhibition dedicated to the salutary genius of Jim Henson has just opened.
In 1991, when Mr. de Grazia published his comprehensive and influential book "Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius," he dedicated it to Justice Brennan.
"With all the abuse to his body, he's one of the most inspiring and charismatic cats I've ever met," she says and calls Christian Bale, who channels Eckland in a similarly amped and admirable performance, "a perfect match as a genius, a dedicated actor and a beautiful human being".
Rap Genius, a site dedicated to the interpretation of hip-hop lyrics, explicates T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land".
The Alfred Sloan Museum in Flint, Mich., dedicated to the shaping executive genius of GM, also has several, including the 1956 Buick Wildcat II and the XP-300 of 1951.
Not too long ago, I had dinner with a neuroscientist who in addition to being a genius is a dedicated meditator.
