Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sculpture, mathematics and folklore belongs in the quattrocento, not in the Manhattan ware house district. But Hayward Cirker is content. The owlish founder and president of Dover Publications Inc. insists that he is precisely where he belongs. "I'm no Renaissance man," he maintains. "I'm just curious...
...administered it was Israeli Premier Menachem Begin. While discussing the stalled peace negotiations, Begin told Atherton that he believed United Nations Resolution 242, which, among other things, calls for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from occupied territories, does not apply to the West Bank. Begin's curious argument: under the terms of 242, the Israelis need withdraw only from territories whose sovereignty they recognize, and Israel has never recognized Jordan's sovereignty over the West Bank...
...Curious New York readers who do not happen to have a million dollars can look at a Gutenberg for the price of a subway fare. The Pierpont Morgan Library has two complete copies, with one always on view. The New York Public Library also has one. In fact, of the 14 Gutenbergs in the U.S., nearly all can be seen in libraries. Each volume is about 16 in. high, 24 in. across when opened, and contains either 648 or 634 pages. Americans, who by and large have given up the study of Latin, may be put off by the fact...
...staging "La Calisto," an opera in three acts by Francesca Caralli, conducted by Warren George Wilson, "La Calisto" is an Arcadian myth of gods, satyrs, wood nymphs and who knows what else, and has been called "a significant part of the current Baroque opera revival," which makes it curious in itself. Catch the wood nymphs next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at the BU Theatre, 269 Huntington Ave., Boston. It is performed in English by School of Music students at 8 p.m. with tickets...
...flute and strings. All experienced string players are welcome to the reading on Sunday in Mather Dining Room at 3 p.m. The Winthrop House Music Society presents Music for Three Cellos by Handel, Fattorini and Couperin. The performers are Andy Collins, Greg Colburn and John Relmand. The only curious thing about this concert is that I've been told that it includes cello music "and also blues." In any case, the recital is on Sunday at 4 p.m. in the Winthrop Tonkens Room...