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...build anew, they would try to restore the city's historic sections to their original appearance. The job has taken a long time. But the rebuilders have been cheered by the knowledge that their most valuable assistant is an artist who waited even longer for recognition. He is Bernardo Bellotto, a Venetian vedutista, or landscape painter, whose views of 18th century Warsaw are the most perfect record of the city to survive the war. And though Bellotto lived from 1720 to 1780, it was only this summer at a major exhibition of vedutisti in Venice that the Italian public...
Polish artistry drew on the resources of Europe. During the early 16th century reign of Sigismund I, Italian Renaissance artists were at work in Poland. Even two centuries later, the most famous master in the country bore the name of Bernardo Bellotto, a nephew of Canaletto. A court painter from 1767 to 1780, he used a camera obscura to obtain perfect perspectives for his city scapes. After the destruction of Warsaw during World War II, his paintings were so accurate that they were used to reconstruct demolished monuments and buildings. The horn of the Wieliczka salt miners, made...
Ever since the founding days of Bernardo O'Higgins, Chileans have paused in the day's occupation at noon to go home, dine on three courses and Riesling, and once upon a time, snooze it comfortably off before returning for another three hours of work in the late afternoon. In modern times, however, workers in downtown Santiago, Valparaiso and Concepción, many of whom live six or seven miles from their jobs, have spent most of their lunchtime stalled on buses in traffic jams. So when Frei's government, seeking to boost efficiency and save electricity...
...Spanish galleons shipped about $1 billion worth of gold and silver bullion from the New World, while conquistadors slaughtered or enslaved thousands of Indians. Spain's comeuppance was just as brutal; in 15 short years under leaders like Simón Bolivar, José de San Martin and Bernardo O'Higgins, the American colonies threw off Spanish dominance and established their independence. Unlike Britain, Spain found no new worlds to conquer. The final humiliating ejection from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines by the U.S. in 1898 sank Spain into doldrums of defeatism and economic stagnation that lasted...
...constitute an indigent class," says Cal's Bernardo. "We live below the labor department's poverty line." Thus there are duds as well as diamonds among TAs. One Harvard fellow candidly rates 20% of the TAs in his department as "obtuse and useless pedants." And undergraduate uneasiness about being distant from top-brass teachers is widespread throughout the best U.S. universities...