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...intelligence community has thousands of them: deskbound clerks, translators and minor functionaries who spend years in decidedly unglamorous jobs in which they are privy to information more valued than their self-esteem. Last week, in separate cases, three of those faceless employees were charged with peddling American secrets to foreign agents. The harvest was apparently random; the only thread was that all were, in the words of one former intelligence official, "tawdry little people who sell their souls for a few thousand bucks." But their apprehension brought to ten the number of spy arrests this year--a number that seems...
...said Gutenberg. 'But wood engraving isn't the solution.' " " 'You've changed,' the painter Rembrandt van Rijn told Herschel a few days later. 'Your face is less luminous.' " The novel fulfills its mission when it leaves the famous and concentrates on the lives of the obscure--the uncelebrated and faceless figures who make history happen. Furnished with voices, the long silent tribe of Abraham reiterates the observation made by Playwright Tom Stoppard 20 years ago in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: when neglected characters move to center stage, Hamlet himself is only a walk-on. --By Stefan Kanfer Best Sellers...
...about being different will we come to some sort of understanding of who we are as a community. This is what the Foundation hopes to do. For, in the end, I, the Foundation, and Harvard as a university all value diversity. Why would we want a society composed of faceless, amorphous, and indistinguishable individuals? That idea scares me. Personally, I would prefer to not live in such a homogeneous world of bullion. For me, the fact that the diversity among us is abundant is a most valuable quality of our life on campus...
...Noble) works his magic, and the necromancer's spiritual struggle is mirrored in his agonized, atonal music. Alonso's disoriented entourage is aptly symbolized by a raucous chorus of trumpets and trombones, searching for its pitches through a sliding microtonal minefield. A small Renaissance ensemble often accompanies the shadowy, faceless Ariel (Mezzo Susan Quittmeyer) on his spritely missions, and his unaccompanied Where the bee sucks becomes a mock-Elizabethan song. A trio of alto sax, electric guitar and electric bass represents the bestial Caliban (Mezzo Ann Howard), and his drunken revels with Trinculo and Stephano are celebrated with some exquisitely...
...living room features several impressive neo-Metaphysical pieces from the 1960s and '70s, including Orpheus the Wearied Troubadour (1970, pictured). During this period, De Chirico reworked the haunting depictions of piazzas and faceless troubadours from the canvases of the 1910s and '20s that made him famous. There are also neo-Baroque portraits of De Chirico and his wife, Isabella, in regal 17th century attire, which display his masterly brushwork and ironic eye for melodrama...