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Faces of Tragedy. Snow sees ignorance and disdain in both camps, but it is plain that he puts heavier blame on the traditional side. "The scientists have the future in their bones: the traditional culture responds by wishing the future did not exist." The literary intellectuals, particularly, tend to talk...
Her eyes are an ageless blue, but the ancient Signora Partibon is dying. Life flickers in her like needlepoints of sunlight refracted on a palazzo ceiling from the Grand Canal. She grips the hand of her grandson Giorgio and thanks him for his visit ("Now the whole family has come...
Everything lives and moves across the stone, not with the fluid grace of classical Greece, but to the harsher beat of the darker desert world. But to the artists who shaped the limestone, the lions clearly were heroic. They leap to the attack, roar with indignation; at times they seem...
Policy Changes. John Hugo Loudon was a natural candidate for the Group's exclusive club. His grandfather was once Governor General of the Dutch East In dies, his uncle Holland's Foreign Minister in World War I. His father. Hugo Loudon, broke the family's civil service...
If her parents still cling to tribalism, they may sell her into marriage with whatever man offers the highest bride price-usually so many head of cattle. Should the husband at any time grow tired of her, he can send her home and demand back his cows. In some parts...