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...bedside shelf, he should be warned that as a stylist, Harris is no match for Cleland. Along about the seventh seduction it becomes apparent that all of Harris' women are the same-defeated enemies who surrender to his massive virility. "Oh, you great, strong dear!" cries his first conquest-and so, for 87 chapters, cry all the others (about 100, by rough count). For the discriminating reader, there is one way of telling them apart: as Harris got older and older, his girls became younger and younger. At 65, he is in Bombay examining naked, twelve-year-old virgins...
...worst thing about The Appeasers is that it fails to discuss the most important issue of England's appeasement. If Great Britain had restricted Hitler at any point along his path of conquest, would he have stopped? Taylor insists that he would have, but Alan Bullock is not sure. Gilbert and Gott don't venture an opinion...
This week the Quakers have an excellent chance to win their second game of the year. Rutgers is in Philadelphia and despite last week's conquest of Lehigh, there is no particulary compelling reason to suppose the Scarlet Knights are a good football team yet. Neither is Penn, though, so the battle could be close...
...Upon the conquest, the art of Mexico stumbled for a while, then swallowed up the onslaught of Spanish artistry and went on to spawn a new nationalistic and individual tradition. To show the whole sweeping story, the Mexican government prepared an encyclopedic exhibit of more than 2,000 works of art from pre-Columbian times to the present (see next two pages). After five years in Europe, where 9,000,000 people saw it, the show has come to the U.S., and now is on view at the Los Angeles County Museum...
...less monumental and more familiar: everyday household utensils and ritual objects decorated with leaves and tendrils; pots, statuary, and tools in the shape of animals; terra-cotta fertility idols whose swollen thighs and exaggerated pubic regions are pocket guarantees of good crops. Perhaps the highest point of pre-conquest art-and the most exciting part of the Los Angeles show-was the painted room of the temple at Bonampak, a pyramid whose corbel vaults-arches made by stepping stones inward-display 8th century Mayan frescoes strangely linked in style with the flat, frontal reliefs of the ancient Egyptians. Their bold...