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...already has orders for 8,000 copies at $2 each. For art collectors, the Spanish pavilion has listed a 47-inch, 16th century painted wood sculpture of the Virgin for $11,590, and the Philippine pavilion is offering to the highest bidder twelve hand-carved acacia-wood panels that depict Philippine history and took 30 workmen more than a year to make. The Philippines also want to dispose of a 70-ft.-high Oriental-style restaurant, and Guinea wants to get rid of its voodoo tom-toms, native spears and a 40-ton air conditioner (all for the best offers...
...researcher, also creates a huge need for more librarians. Library schools such as the one I graduated from in June will never be able to attract talented young college graduates unless the public and TIME stop propagating the image of tie fabled bun-wearing librarian and help us depict the new librarian...
...longer the same as religion, only its handmaiden. As the Libri Carolini put it in the late 8th century: "The sacrament is nourishment for the soul. Pictures are food only for the eyes." So the Carolingian renaissance opened the way for the later, greater Renaissance to depict the deeds of mortal man without fear...
...depict the far-out cover subject the editors called on an artist of far-ranging talent. Rumanian-born Saul Steinberg studied psychology at the University of Bucharest and architecture at the University of Milan, was a U.S. Navy officer in World War II, and has gained an international reputation for his vividly imaginative drawings. He is best known, perhaps, for his regular contributions to The New Yorker, has also been published in LIFE, FORTUNE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and Harper's Bazaar. In his deceptively simple linear technique, he gives life to Paul Klee's definition of drawing...
...states tried to depict themes representative of the Great Society. Texas trundled by proudly with a model of the LBJ Ranch, including a plastic Pedernales River, and a beagle with a tail that wagged. Minnesota's banner heralded the state as the SOURCE OF MAN POWER AND BRAINPOWER, while Hubert's old college band cut loose with The Minnesota Rouser. Education and recreation were the principal themes, Southern states, by and large, had the prettiest girls, and each state had some touch that was indubitably...