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Founded in Italy in 1889 by poets and men of letters "trying to defend the Italian language against the invasion of French and English terms," the Dante Society, with 310 chapters worldwide, has since become a vehicle for the diffusion of Italian language and culture throughout the world. The society...
Gerald S. Lesser, Bigelow Professor of Education and Developmental Psychology, also has a personal interest in the excursion. Three months ago, a team of Chinese broadcasters visited Lesser and his co-workers at the Children's Television Workshop (the organization that created Sesame Street) to learn about American educational television...
Whatever he's done in the last two months has failed. Trying to stay high and dry above ths slush lost him Iowa. Descending into it has been an excursion into ethnic cracks and racial slurs. Sixty-nine year old Reagan insists that he's not tired but his actions...
He weighs 151 Ibs., stands 5 ft. 9½ in. Plain, muted suits and ties enhance his slenderness. Yet when he talks these days he seems bigger. His principal concern is world peace. His thoughts must embrace the entire globe. For three years he used to rush back from every...
The Russian Empire has been conceived as a journey traversing what was the largest empire in modern history. Obolensky has charted the course from St. Petersburg and Moscow, across the Volga, the Urals and Siberia to the empire's frontier on the Pacific Ocean. The photographs then take the...