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...because the nation's fate is securely in the hands of his heroes, the American people. "... These people can cope," he says unequivocally. Indeed, the fact that Americans have coped so well in what even Wallenberg admits are troubled times "may be the most valued jewel in the diadem of American success...
...time. Although the feet are missing from the statue of the youth (as is the right hand), the figure stands more than six feet, somewhat larger than lifesize. His wavy hair, held in place by a headband, still bears traces of its original red color. The girl wears a diadem of lotus blossoms and other flowers on her shoulder-length curls and a chain of tiny pomegranate-shaped beads around her neck. Despite some slight damage to the nose and a missing left hand-which, Mastrokostas believes, also held a flower-it is the most complete statue of its period...
...prizes ranged backward to an Egyptian diadem and forward to an Art Nouveau silver clip. But his heart was closest to the Renaissance and the lovingly fashioned objects it produced. A brilliantly enameled South German panel, dated circa 1530, that vividly portrays Christ being mocked on the road to Calvary, was either part of a pax, to be used by priests during the Mass, or else decorated a reliquary in a church or a monastery...
GALILEO, by Bertolt Brecht, is like a formal ballet of the mind in which the prince of science and the princes of the church dance out their accustomed roles. Anthony Quayle makes diction a diadem, as he leads the Lincoln Center Repertory Company through a highly creditable production...
After a series of ill-starred ventures, the Lincoln Center company has put together a creditable production, and it is luckiest of all in its British star, Anthony Quayle. His Galileo leaps at the tantalizing bait of new knowledge, delivers his lines with a purity that makes diction a diadem, and knows bitterly the heart's blind wounds for which the mind has no tourniquet...