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Long familiar with the book from his undergraduate research at Haverford College Bond wanted to hold the 17th century equivalent of a copyright registry in his own hands and examine the first official reference to a playwright named William Shakespeare. "I had run across so many notations mentioning the volume," he recalls, "and then to actually have it in front of me-that was the wonderful thing about Widener and about Harvard...
...start of the 17th century, painting in France was not, on the whole, an instrument of state glory; it tended to be seen condescendingly as a manual business, a craft. The story of French art in this period is very largely that of painting's struggle to be seen on a level with literature or philosophy. This entailed confronting the source of all great artistic prototypes, Rome, which supplied models both antique and modern. The chief modern one was Caravaggio, who had died on a malarial Mediterranean beach at the start of the 17th century and left behind...
...best French painter to fall under Caravaggio's spell was, however, Georges de La Tour (1593-1652). His own Fortune Teller (the subject was perhaps bound to be popular in a country as worried about the future as early 17th century France) is condemned at the moment to a period of freakhood, thanks to 60 Minutes, which briefly rose from its usual torpor about cultural affairs to pillory it as a modern forgery. Reputable scholars agree, however, that there is no real question about The Fortune Teller's authenticity; its age has now been scientifically confirmed. It remains...
Peter Rodino, 73, Democratic Congressman from New Jersey who fairly and forcefully chaired House Judiciary Committee's impeachment proceedings. Now in his 17th term and favored for re-election in November, he still heads Judiciary Committee...
Dean of students Archie C. Epps III, whose workload dips when there are no students around, said he plans to finish Yukio Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy along with some Hugh Trevor-Roper history of 17th century England. For others he proposes reading...