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...was?one of the problems here?I have always run my campaigns. I didn't run this one I must say. I was pretty busy. Or?maybe ?handling the Russian Summit. And you know, after the election?we were right in the middle of the Dec. 8th bombing?and holding meetings...
...Intrusion. In the show are illuminated manuscripts from the 8th century to about 1510. A German chronicle about events from the creation of the world to the death of Charlemagne includes an illustration of a giant Nimrod directing the construction of the Tower of Babel. Even in the compass of a page, Nimrod stands huge and commanding beside the rising tower. In the magnificent Book of Hours painted for Catherine of Cleves about 1440, there is a wildly imaginative image of the Mouth of Hell-three gaping bestial jaws flanked by towers, with sinners and demons scrambling about...
...Junior High School 104 chess team with ease, but when we began to participate in city-wide tournaments my bubble burst. In eleventh grade our team--me on first board and my friend Harry Chun on second--met down at the roomy old McAlpin Hotel on 34th St. and 8th Ave. in New York...
...Rockefeller on what to buy, "is one that insists on the highest possible quality in the objects acquired and on their capacity to be understood and enjoyed by the interested layman." Included in the gift are some of the most striking South Indian bronzes and stone carvings of the 8th to 11th centuries left in private hands, such as a 10th-llth century figure of Krishna dancing on the hood of the cobra-demon Kaliya, holding up the creature's tail in a ripple of bronze like a Malay kris, and the majestic, decapitated Female Torso from llth century...
When a singularly undistinguished book written in 1943 is the subject of review in a recent Crimson (November 8th), one suspects that the review serves a loftier purpose. And indeed after several paragraphs of critical subterfuge the real purpose of Mr. Geoffrey Garin's review of Katherine Chorley's Armies and the Art of Revolution emerges. Mr. Garin is worried about the lack of effective civilian control of the military and he correspondingly calls for the re-introduction of compulsory military service as a means of overcoming this problem...