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...survey of mythology, from the oral epics of earliest civilization to modern folklore, will be offered as a lower-level humanities course next year...
...survey course, Hum 9 will leapfrog the period roughly from 2000 B.C. to the present. It will deal with the literature of the Ancient Near East, the Bible, and the ancients, and the vernacular literature of the Middle Ages, which marks the first recording of some of man's earliest creative expression. Old Norse sagas, Celtic legend, Irish mythology, and modern folklore and songs of both Europe and of some non-literate societies will also be examined...
...attention to symbolism begins in Copley's earliest paintings. His portrait of the Harvard astronomer Winthrop has a telescope on the backdrop, just as the portrait of Nicholas Boylston (of which there are three nearly identical copies) depicts the wealthy Boston merchant leaning on a ledger. The tradition is not new; through much of the eighteenth century many artists possessed handbooks, like Alciati's Ripe (1635), which encyclopedically portrayed all the traditional symbols and gestures in art associated with important didactic themes like virtue or temperance. In most of Copley's work the symbolic paraphernalia, like the background materials...
...Earliest Truffles. His customers came to include all those with money, family, achievement or plain corporate brass who make up society in New York. With them Soule was always cool, correct and attentive. Recalls the New York Times's Charlotte Curtis: "He would arrange his people around the room as if he were a woman preparing for a ball. He would put Mrs. William Paley on one banquette like a huge bouquet of flowers, Mrs. John Pell on another side, and perhaps Elizabeth Arden in still a third corner...
Sabbath observance is one of Judaism's gifts to the ancient world, which had no concept of a regular weekly respite from work. Taking their cue from Biblical evidence that God rested on the seventh day of creation, Jews from the earliest days kept Saturday sacred as a time to abstain from manual labor and pray to the Lord God of Israel. The early Christians kept the principle, but gradually shifted the time of observance to Sunday. It proved sound against such onslaughts as the French Revolution's attempt to establish a ten-day week, and colonialism carried...