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...delicate art of cleaning and restoring fading masterpieces was once the province of cautious artisans armed with little more than a magnifying glass, a loaf of fresh bread (without the crust) for gently erasing dirt, and perhaps some soapy water and varnish. Now a new breed of "scientific" restorers, equipped with a surgeon's tools, a chemist's swabs, and a burning curiosity about what lies under the next layer of paint, has moved into most of the world's great museums. At best, their efforts have resulted in such spectacular triumphs as the restoration of Leonardo...
...incongruity. But love in Japan is not so much the book's real subject as love of Japan. The desire to evoke the spare, printlike beauty of their native land which animates Author Mishima and other leading Japanese novelists sets them apart as a special and welcome breed in contemporary writing-that of unabashed patriot esthetes who somehow manage not to sound like jingoes...
Known all over Germany as "the little man's horse racing," pigeon racing is nowhere so popular as it is in the Ruhr. Miners breed and raise their birds with loving attention, bet heavily on the pigeons' speed and natural navigation skills, bridle at the very thought of selling their pets for food. Last month, when a rash crook kidnaped half a dozen prizewinners and sent one of his own homers with a ransom note, the whole valley rose in wrath. Pigeon partisans tagged the go-between pigeon with streamers, trailed it by plane back to its loft...
...life can at the same time be a prosperous life. But he is most irked by the whining sort of U.S. intellectual who sets himself apart, "a species of dilettante who prides himself on being different, for no particular reason and with no particular duties." The men of this breed must find Kirk a very peculiar intellectual indeed. Can he mean it when he writes that "for the Christian, freedom is submission to the will of God"? Kirk does mean it, and this is no paradox. "We are free in proportion as we recognize our real duties and our real...
...graveyard, the blind girl finds social security. She also meets two human beings who, alone among New Hoosicers, seem wise and considerate: Old Repent, the tombstone cutter, and young Robber Jim, an illegitimate half-breed who inhabits the nearby city dump. When Lovey finds she can see again, and loves Jim at first sight, Jim knows instantly. With grandma's death, Lovey regains the capacity for grief. Outraged by her parents' glee during the sterile funeral service, Lovey tauntingly tells them she can see again ("Father, your hair is horrible"). Lovey's parents hardly listen...