Word: atheneum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Diaghilev, By Richard Buckle (Atheneum. $22.95): For the same price you can take Amtrak--one way--to New York and see the Diaghilev exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But what then will you put on your coffee table? Though it makes a great living room conversation-piece, Buckle's work is also a splendid introduction to the Diaghilevian/magnificence on which much of Russia's cultural accomplishments in the first third of this century were based...
DIAGHILEV by Richard Buckle; Atheneum; 616pages...
MIRABELL: BOOKS OF NUMBER by James Merrill Atheneum; 182 pages...
...YEARS FROM SOMEWHERE by Philip Levine Atheneum; 70 pages; $4.95 Philip...
...have to feel sorry for the Atheneum. It's 172 years old, its Beacon Street building needs repairs, and the demon inflation looms large. But just because the Smithsonian has $5 million to spend on two more portraits for the endless corridors of nameless faces in the National Portrait Gallery, doesn't mean the Atheneum should sell the portraits right out from under the MFA which has had them on loan since...