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...Dig. As visiting poetry professor at Oxford and (for 40 years) a tireless reformist inspector of the British school system. Critic Arnold had many a platform from which to praise past excellence and take potshots at John Bullish complacency. He had a gift for making a phrase stick. After Arnold so summed him up, Romantic Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley has indelibly remained "an ineffectual angel." His fellow Britons Arnold divided into three groups: "the Barbarians [aristocracy], the Populace and the Philistines," an epithet which for Arnold summed up all the sins of the muscular, muddleheaded, self-satisfied British middle class...
...Pension, Ah-ha!" On TV and at rallies, Caouette sticks to the stomach and the pocketbook. "When I'm up there," he says, "and I talk about the people in Montreal who had to dig in garbage pails for chicken last Christmas, I really feel their hunger. I feel their misery. I identify." He vaguely blames the "big interests," meaning the English-speaking people who rule Canada. "Have you ever heard of them lacking money to build a cannon? No. But family allowances, old-age pensions, money for the blind, ah-ha! That's another matter...
...primarily interested in the allusions to weapons, jewelry and coins made in the Chalcidice-and guessed that this indicated a sizable local lode of metal. He reasoned that much of the metal would still be in the earth, since the early Greeks had primitive mining machinery and thus could dig only shallow mines. Xenarios finally homed in on a region known as Skouries (meaning "deposits of rust") which had the typical copper field's tree-barren look. By careful exploration, he located the ancient mines...
Crusty old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was laying about him with splendid gusto last week, wisecracking about American politics ("Say, what ever happened to Lyndon Johnson?"), needling the British (he says they deliberately spread misconceptions), even taking a backhanded dig at his pal in Paris, Charles de Gaulle...
...supply of old masters available to the market is just about exhausted, but U.S. museums seem to keep right on buying old masters. In a trenchant little article in The Art Gallery, Director Daniel Catton Rich of the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum charges that in the process they often dig up paintings that should have been left buried, that the era of masterpieces is giving way to the "era of the second-rate...