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Council member Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith Ryan, who is the director of graduate studies in the Department of Comparative Literature, said the Council discussed possible explanations for the drop...
...reinventing the Milan-based leather-goods company Bottega Veneta. "Everything looks like a stage set at night with double-height columns and huge proportions. People don't have an eye for this postwar, slightly fascistic look yet, but they will." The only son of two architects, Maier, who is German born, has lived most of his professional life between Paris and Miami. But the world of Milanese design is what inspires many of his fashion ideas. "I go around and look at architecture and then come home and Google it to find out what it is," he says. Among...
...Marseilles. The fate of Saint-Exupéry, a well-known pilot and writer of the best-selling books Wind, Sand and Stars and The Little Prince, has been one of aviation's great mysteries since he disappeared on July 31, 1944, after being sent to observe German troop movements. A serial number found on a fragment of the underwater wreck confirmed the plane was Saint-Exup...
...think the Core is a huge success. There’s an incredible number of outstanding courses, the likes of which you’d be hard-pressed to find at other universities,” says Committee on the Core Program member and Professor of German Peter J. Burgard. “What’s wonderful about these courses is that they bring together students from all over the University in a way that I do not think would happen in other [departmental] courses,” he says...
...world's wit were rolled into one portly fellow. PETER USTINOV, who died last week at 82, once boasted, "I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins" (his great-grandfather wedded the Princess of Ethiopia). He spoke six languages, and a few others of his own comic invention. With gifts too wide-ranging to be contained in one art form, he wrote hit plays (Romanoff and Juliet) and books of nonfiction and short stories. He could be an excellent film director (Billy Budd) and a serious Shakespearean (King Lear at Stratford, Ont.). He won Supporting...