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Three searches, according to Chairman Albert Henrichs: one in Greek Comedy, to replace the late Cedric Wideman, who died in 1979; one in Ancient History; and one in Philology, for which a choice will be made by the spring...
Lurie's London backdrop betrays Lurie's critical love. This is not a James novel with wealthy Americans darting about wide-eyed in full-dress infatuation. Lurie shows us the procession of the Druids on Parliament Hill but does not spare us their absurdity, the anachronistic spectacles under their ancient hoods, their clearly modern British faces. But neither can Lurie mask her love for Vinnie's adopted city, flaws...
Wisely, Glazebrook keeps this sort of modernist baggage to a minimum. He knows what readers want from a travel book, and he does not disappoint them. His route, from the Aegean coast to the borders of Iran and the Soviet Union, stretches like an ancient weft on which history and legend are tightly knotted. This has a sumptuous effect on his prose: "We were surging through bright water off the promontory of Knidos, to which Praxiteles' Venus once drew all travelers . .. Here were the ramparts of Asia crumbling into a sapphire...
...Crimson and Bulldog rugby clubs faced off to decide bragging rights to the rugby part of the ancient rivalry...
Technique intrigued him deeply. To many, plywood seems a contemptible crossbreed, neither natural nor synthetic, but to Aalto it was a perfect hybrid of ancient material and industrial technology. Breuer eventually returned to plywood; after the war, Charles Eames pressed it into subtle topographies that had been beyond Aalto's means. But no one ever paid the material more respect than Aalto. He built up plywood layers one by one, twisted and glued them meticulously, experimented. He coaxed plywood first into a simple L-leg (1932) to make his wonderful three-legged stacking stool, then split the L into...