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...midst of its new notoriety, New Jersey's Morris County Courthouse remains a quiet, old-fashioned sort of place. George Washington wintered his troops in Morristown in 1777, and handsome 19th century houses still stand near the village green. The courthouse is a three-story Georgian building shaded by yellowing oaks, and the pew-like benches in Courtroom No. 1 have room for only about 110 spectators, with space for another 30 in the white-paneled balcony. The seats are packed every day, mostly with reporters from as far away as Tokyo and London; there are a few students...
There is a touch of the 19th century dandy about Donleavy, born 49 years ago in New York City and now living in a large Georgian house on a 180-acre cattle farm in Ireland. There is more than a touch of stately grandiloquence to the Donleavy prose, with its Latinate preferences and its "My-dear-sir!" bursts of lace-cuff-shooting mock elegance. But what the cadenced prose does is to set up the reader for the moment when Donleavy belches out his violent, scurrilous message: life, taken all in all, is obscene-the ultimate four-letter word...
...leaves Victorian propriety behind him to become a brutal lord among primitive East Indies tribesmen. D.H. Lawrence's characters trek to all parts of the globe in search of a primeval energy lacking in Edwardian drawing rooms. Malcolm Lowry's consul seeks to escape from the gentility of Georgian society by drinking himself into a stupor under the volcanoes of Mexico...
Ample Program. The I.C.P. is the child of ebullient, beetle-browed Photographer Cornell Capa. Housed in a rambling Georgian mansion on East 94th Street-it was once the Audubon Society's headquarters, and pigeons still roost in its unrenovated attics-it has an ample program: exhibitions, archive, study center, seminars, master classes, lectures. It is a culmination of years of effort by Capa to get museum exposure for such doyens of the document as Lewis Hine and Andre Kertesz, together with Capa's contemporaries and friends, some prematurely dead: David Seymour Dan Weiner, Werner Bischof, and Capa...
...Soviets' Methuselah cult is explainable in social and political rather than medical terms, says Medvedev. In the hotbeds of centenarianism, the aged are venerated and may even have postage stamps issued in their honor. The cult's prominence in Georgia was fostered by Georgian-born Stalin, who apparently began to hope, at around age 70, that longevity might...