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The Law Against Pity. Colette's characters are sensitive to pain, but because they live according to the laws of what Chaucer calls "Merciles Beaute," they can never expect pity. The queen herself had so ordained it. "Suffering," said Colette, "is perhaps a childish business . . . It is very painful...
After 15 months, what started as a community project had grown into one of the most comprehensive exhibits of religious art ever gathered together in northern Europe. By last week, 300 art historians and archeologists had swarmed into town to buzz among the assembled treasures, argue learnedly over dates and...
So aungelik was hir natif beaute,
"Everyman lyveth so after his owne pleasure, And yet of theyr lyfe they be nothynge sure. . . ." The Cardinal Archbishop, settling his dalmatic more comfortably, arranged himself to listen, his small brown face screwed into a mask of naive anticipation. Nobody else moved. Behind him the burgesses of Salzburg listened respectfully...
Auguste Rodin's beautiful maxim, "Lenteur est beaute," manifestly is not a favorite with our present-day American universities. Just now the watchword with them is "Speed up the courses." To cite an example, in his annual report to the trustees of Boston University, Dr. Murlin, the president of that...