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From his desk, Hofer looked up, pointed across his office, and said, "That is my favorite thing here. it is a cast from the British Museum hear of Hypnos, which is Graeco-Roman, and underneath it is written in Greek what was over the Alexandrian Lirarv: 'A healing place for the soul.' That just gives me peace when I feel. . . well, wouldn't that give you peace...
Fleshy & Glowering. Few bronzes of Athens' great Age of Pericles exist, but Hellenistic sculptures of the succeeding Alexandrian empire, when taste ran to mannered elegance, survive in great numbers. One of the most popular goddesses was Aphrodite, identified by peoples in conquered Egypt and Syria with Isis. She was commonly portrayed primping at her mirror, fixing her hair or adjusting her sandal. St. Augustine testifies that even in his time (the 4th century A.D.) her worshipers repeated these gestures in front of her idol as a form of veneration...
...Tolstoy began a fictional account titled Posthumous Notes on Fyodor Kuzmich. Another investigator has had better luck with the Soviet regime of Brezhnev and Kosygin. Writing in Izvestia's Sunday magazine last week, Journalist Lev Lyubimov revealed that the Russian government is pondering a plan to resolve the Alexandrian mystery once and for all. Lyubimov would like to open both Kuzmich's tomb in Tomsk and Alexander's in Leningrad...
There is little in the exchange that could be called mere gossip. When Durrell's wife leaves him, the fact is briefly noted; and he soon replaces her in the country house in Provence with a French-Alexandrian girl able to type 10,000 words a day. From Big Sur, Miller dryly mentions "Lepska has decamped," but soon he too is being well looked after. Both live their lives of authentic dedication to writing; there is no unpleasant whine about its disciplinary austerities such as disfigure the correspondence of D.H. Lawrence or even the tougher but litigious Joyce...
...first eight councils were largely concerned with defining church doctrine. In the process of stamping out heresies, the fathers extracted from the message of Scripture the essential dogmas of the Trinity. Condemning the thought of an Alexandrian priest named Arius, First Nicaea ruled that Christ was divine-"the only begotten of the Father, of the same substance with the Father." Ephesus anathematized the Nestorians, because they refused to acknowledge Mary as Theotokos, the Mother of God. Chalcedon condemned the Monophysites, for denying that Christ united a divine and a human nature in one person. The councils may have brought...