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...though he is a specialist in 16th and 17th century Dutch painting, "the breadth of Slive's sympathies is astounding," says associate professor Michael Fried, a specialist in modern art. "I can't imagine Slive won't do a tremendous job," Fried says...
TARTUFFE is the story of what happens when a hypocrite moves in with the family. It is also a very funny satire directed at those who oppose 17th-century absolutism. Orgon, a wealthy and respected Parisian and supporter of Louis XIV, is infatuated by the pretended piety of Tartuffe, whom he has observed sweating blood in church. He welcomes him into his family, embracing him first as a brother, then as an heir when he disowns his skeptical son. Apparently hoping that his association with the pseudo-pious Tartuffe will create for himself a public image of God-fearing moral...
...wartime, the flight of up to 2 million people from an opposing army has to be considered an extraordinary phenomenon. Why were they fleeing, and from whom? Through more than two decades of war in Indochina, some observers have maintained that most of the 20 million people below the 17th parallel were at best reluctant antiCommunists. Basically, the argument went, Northerners and Southerners were above all Vietnamese, separated by only the most artificial of boundaries. Despite some provincial animosities, they were capable of getting along pretty well if outside powers would only leave them alone...
Such explanations still left a sizable number who were clearly running to escape Communist rule, as did some 900,000 Vietnamese in 1954 after the country was partitioned at the 17th parallel. That earlier exodus was organized and dominated by Catholics and anti-Communists and was encouraged by the Saigon regime of Ngo Dinh Diem. There was a great deal of propaganda at the time, and some not so subtle rumor mongering. Father Nguyen Dinh Thi, a priest who was part of that flight but who now lives in Paris, claims that some superstitious Catholic peasants were told that...
...common. At table (regularly spread with fresh linen), two people often shared a bowl, helping themselves with fingers. But a strict etiquette governed the sharing, and hands and nails were expected to be scrupulously clean. Plumbing in the larger castles, the authors say, was better than that of 17th century Versailles: every floor had a washing area-some with running water, even baths. Latrines were often conveniently perched out over the castle moat...