Word: coptic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This extraordinary novel is a sensuous and beautifully written hymn to the "postcoital sadness" of mankind. The heroine, Justine, a slum-born Jewess of great beauty, marries Nessim, a Coptic millionaire, who suffers her infidelities in silence. Nearly every male in the book and at least one female have a try at "awakening" Justine, but she is the sort of woman "who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self-because she does not know where to find...
Despite the seeping corruption around him, Dirk feels the romantic pull of the minarets, the call of the muezzin, and the wheeling of the slender-winged kites in Cairo's twilight sky. He falls recklessly in love with a raven-haired Coptic 16-year-old named Aziza. Their furtive courtship gives Author Schiemer a chance to explore Egyptian domestic customs from cuisine to boudoir. One custom: the exhibiting of the wedding-night bedsheet to the bridegroom's parents as proof of the bride's virginity...
...proved to be even better bargains than contemporary pictures by little-known artists. Sample rates: a bronze reindeer from ancient Persia for $632.50, a 5,000-year-old "female divinity" from Sumer for $103.50, an ancient Egyptian bronze statuette of Anubis for $172.50, a Tarascan warrior for $200, a Coptic bone statuette for $28.75, Etruscan earrings for $189.75, and two highly stylized Spanish and Greek bronzes for $200 (left} and $402.50 (right...
Born. To Crown Prince Asfa Wassan of Ethiopia, 37, and Crown Princess Medferiash Worq Abbebe, 30: their third child, first son, Emperor Haile Selassie's twelfth grandchild, second in line of succession to the throne. Name: to be announced, according to Ethiopian Coptic Orthodox custom, 40 days after birth. Weight...
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...