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Detroit's Institute of Arts is one of the nation's biggest and best museums. Its Italian Renaissance building (of Vermont marble) covers a city block, and holds treasures ranging from an Assyrian bas-relief to a mural by Diego Rivera. The public's favorite painting is Pieter Bruegel the Elder's big, brash The Wedding Dance...
...latex rubber compound of a green stone that stands in an inaccessible 11,000-ft. pass looking south toward Mesopotamia. The stone was erected by King Ispuinis of the Urartians, a civilized people who lived some 2,800 years ago on the northern border of the great Assyrian Empire. From time to time the Urartians challenged the mighty Assyrians; about 600 B.C. the Assyrians and the Scythians smashed the Urartians...
...ASSYRIAN AND OTHER STORIES (276 pp.) - William Saroyan - Harcourt, Brace...
...most unusual feature of Saroyan's sound-off is his announcement of how much money he has already made from selling The Assyrian's contents to magazines-$8,300. Of this sum he got $5,000 from Cosmopolitan for The Cocktail Party and $3,000 from the Saturday Evening Post for The Pheasant Hunter. Most of the other stories he could not sell at all, but three of them he let go free to a magazine apparently close to his Anatolian-American heart: The Armenian Review. Less unusual in an introduction, but still reminiscent of the old Saroyan...
...Assyrian collection suffers precisely from the fact that Saroyan is so busy creating his own character that he has little time left for the characters in his stories. Bright and shiny on the surface but mushy and sentimental at the core, the stories are pretty much standard Saroyan: a boy steals a hammer and feels stripped of his dignity when caught; a wacky playwright buys a punch bowl and a dozen cups for $1,050 from Cartier without knowing how he is to pay for them; an abandoned boy is befriended by a bighearted bartender; a middle-aged writer gets...