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...totally beyond comprehension that a prosecutor in the land of the free can ask an adult female to testify under oath that she did or did not have a sexual relationship with an adult man, be he the President or anybody else. HANS BOETHIUS Stockholm...
...costumes he is forced to wear for the purpose of enticement, Mancuso constantly goes out and gets himself arrested. Much of the comedy in the novel is of the atom-smashing variety; people and props ricochet off each other into unforeseen trajectories. Ignatius' favorite work is Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy...
...others, landed them in jail.* In this head-shaking book, Author Paul Tabori notes that man's incurable doltishness has managed to fill the prisons and crowd the executioner's block with the finest intelligences the human race could produce. A partial list: Plato, Socrates, Seneca, Boethius, Cervantes, Sir Walter Raleigh, Daniel Defoe, Voltaire, Beaumarchais, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Verlaine...
Among Toledo's more out-of-the-way exhibits were an illustrated treatise on music by the 6th century Roman Boethius (better known for his Consolations of Philosophy), and an early Coptic manuscript which appears to indicate a tune by different colored notes rather than by their positioning. But most of the 103 items on view are leaves from Roman Catholic choir books, illuminated over long years of cloistered devotion by medieval and renaissance monks. They echo Byzantine mosaics and foreshadow modern art. The monks' forte was to make flat, ingenious patterns of a few brilliant colors;school...
...been resolutely aiming at the lowest common denominator, unsponsored Invitation to Learning (Sun. noon, CBS) has been persistently and unashamedly highbrow. Radiomen called it "Columbia's Hour of Silence" because they were sure that no listeners could possibly want to hear about Plato's Republic or Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy. Even the CBS publicity department once recognized its lack of mass appeal by referring to it as "the 69th most popular program...