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...authorizing the installation of the doors. Art Critic Mario Salmi, vice president of the government's Superior Council of Fine Arts, promptly and publicly denounced Greco's work. "It is like inserting a modern canto into The Divine Comedy," he complained, and resigned his post. Another leading antiquarian, Giorgio Bassani, described the doors as "outrageous, awkward, pseudo modern." Among the doors' defenders was Orvieto's bishop, Monsignor Virginio Dondeo, who contended that "each century should make its contribution to the cathedral...
...addition to his work at Harvard, Dr. Shipton served also as Librarian and Director of the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester from 1940 to 1967, and for the year 1967-68 he was President of the Society of American Archivists...
Despite these blemishes, the Cambridge Society's enjoyable concert certainly exceeded the usual summer Niagras of antiquarian Festivals in which the major orchestras repent eight months of Bruckner and Rimsky Korsakov and throw themselves at the starved mercy of their subscribers. Intelligent programming, significant musical abilities and commendable vitality combine to make this a welcome organization...
Though it may have been absurd, there was nothing contemptible about the antiquarian passion that swept a good part of the British upper classes at the time, when architects like Sir George Gilbert Scott and A.W.N. Pugin were creating hundreds of Neo-Gothic churches and restorations throughout England, and Sir Charles Barry was faking the medieval Houses of Parliament. For a generous spirit like Morris, it was an easy step from saying that life once was beautiful to believing that it could and should be beautiful again...
...Aviv or Beirut? Nasser hopes, of course, that in a few years there will be no need for such antiquarian arms as tanks, ships and planes. Egypt is developing three brands of short-range missile-the 230-mile-range Al Zafer (Victorious), the 375-mile Al Kaher (Conqueror) and the 500-mile Al Raid (Pioneer). Linked with the nuclear warheads that Nasser hopes to develop or acquire, they might give him the upper hand over Israel, provided...