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Ever since Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera announced that it would abandon its historic old house for new quarters in Lincoln Center, requests for souvenirs have been pouring in by the thousands from opera lovers as well as opera stars around the world. Their eagerness is understandable: the proud Old Lady of 39th Street has been allowed to waste away, and next month, when the wrecking crews get started, there will be nothing left...
...radio galaxies from his collection of "peculiar galaxies." And most point out that he has offered only informed guesses, no scientific evidence that the red shift of quasar light is caused by anything other than their speed of recession. "If Arp is right," says one astronomer, "we have to abandon most of our work of the past 30 years, drop the general theory of relativity and go back to our drawing boards"-something few of Arp's colleagues are yet ready...
Crane suggested that the Council work through Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Camb.) and the Massachusetts Senators to get the federal government -- which will pay 90 per cent of the highway's costs -- to abandon a Cambridge link. He called for an appeal to President Johnson if it proved necessary...
...though it must prepare for the eventuality of the Belt, the City does not have to abandon all opposition to the highway. The Federal Bureau of Roads has promised a full-scale review of the project; the first thing Cambridge ought to do is ask Washington to conduct an independent study rather than rely on the State Department of Public Works for information in the project's review...
...light over shrubbery or fields. To them he gave an incredible delicacy." Bonnard grew old joyously contemplating his own garden at Le Cannet above the shores of the Mediterranean, pursuing an ever more jubilant orchestration of clear blue skies and yellow blooms. Pissarro, the first of the impressionists to abandon Paris for the country, remained the most earthy of all. For him no garden or bloom was complete without some sense of the people who cultivated it. Monet laid out his gardens at Giverny as works of art, then used them as models for his studies of color harmonies...