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The first judges who undertook to settle disputes were priestly figures credited with a semidivine authority, and they soon became accustomed to receiving gifts from litigants. The words for such offerings--shohadh in Hebrew or munus in Latin--were ambiguous; none of the classical languages had a specific term for...
Even if one accept the contention that androgyny is about to sweep through the heart of Middle America, the timing of all this interest in androgyny betrays Engel's masculine frame of reference. Since the Dior look of the 1940's, women's clothing has become increasingly masculinized. Designers have...
Besides, is there anything duller than democracy? Where is the pageantry, the fanfare, the inspiring queen, the court intrigue? We have made a cult of monotony, a national religion of similitude: same duties, same opportunities, same rights, same made from. TV ideas. Picture a coronation procession on Pennsylvania Ave., a...
Last December, 33 Bach scores were "discovered" in Yale's archives. Classical music lovers were thrilled precisely because these works, unknown and unperformed, had been lost. The same sense of loss and rediscovers happens when a work is known to exit but is ready soon or performed. Witness the excitement...
A child prodigy who sat in with Cuba's best musicians as early as the age of seven, D'Rivera went on to become a founding member of the Cuban super band, Irakere. Founded in the early 1970s, Irakere (whose name is a Yoruba meaning forest), an II-piece aggregation...