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...hours after their final exams are over to make room for the visiting hoardes. For the graduating class itself, the Reunion is simply another obstacle that gets in their way as they nervously guide bewildered parents through the narrow and overcrowded streets. And as for the College's few extant radicals, one said, "It's an opportunity for the University to get the alumni drunk so they can hold them upside down on their way out the door while they gather up all the change that falls out of those rich pigs' pockets...
...sheer tensile strength of a woman's will in Greek tragedy is unparalleled in any other literature. Of 33 extant plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, ten bear the names of women. Among the 39 Shakespearean titles, only three acknowledge women-Juliet, Cleopatra and Cressida-and all three share top billing with men. Sophocles' Antigone is a test of wills between a man and a woman, a king and his subject...
These few cases comprise most of the extant case law on audience rights. Since they date back more than fifty years and primarily concern religious meetings, they can only be suggestive for current problems. There do exist, however, two recent cases that examine the issues discussed by Judge Shaw in a contemporary context...
Downstairs again. Of the 12 or 13 extant sculptures of the Sumerian king Goudia, who lived about 2350 B.C., a good number are in the Louvre. One is in the Boston Musuem. The portrait of his head may well be the most beautiful piece of sculpture ever done. In the Louvre, they sell a full-sized reproduction of that head, made in the Louvre workshops, for 55 francs. I have one in my bedroom at home. There is also one next to the while Hummurabi...
Peasant Vigor. For a sculptor whose working life spanned more than 50 years, Brancusi's approximately 200 extant pieces do not constitute a large body of work. Once Brancusi found a motif that delighted him, he characteristically repeated it over and over again, subtly altering and refining its shapes and using different materials to give it new substance. There are 16 versions of Bird in Space. Not all his works, however, share Bird's elegant abstraction or the witty sophistication of Princess X, a subtly phallic take-off on the society-portrait bust. In his native Rumania, Brancusi...