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...that opened ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to modern understanding. Finally, she turned her researches over to Barthel. With the same shrewdness that enabled him to decipher several Allied codes during World War II, Barthel made use of an important clue in her material. Many of the Inca vessels bore pictures as well as tocapus. In fact, one common scene portrayed the act of toasting the gods. After studying numerous pieces, Barthel found a matching tocapu that, he believed, recorded the same...
...Dream admits me? Did Shakespeare confide to any notary or parish recorder, sacristan, or surogate, in Stratford, the genesis of the delicate creation?" And George Steiner, writing of Painter's biography of Proust, said that it was so explicit, gave so many details of Proust's life that bore directly on A la recherche du temps perdu, that no reader of the biography could possibly respond to the novel in a fresh and unprejudiced...
...bore who tells the world whom it should be bored...
...Victorian writers, he was conspicuous for creating women characters who could think -"the lady with brains," as he described his heroine in The Egoist. Meredith married one himself-the daughter of another comic novelist, Thomas Love Peacock. She collaborated with him on a study of the art of cookery, bore him a son, then deserted him for a painter...
...showed that they agreed with twelve of the 16 starters (managers pick the pitchers) selected by the fans. Though Kuhn may not have planned it that way, the controversy served his original intent: provoking interest in what many fans and players have come to regard as an all-star bore...