Word: greats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white passes, the Communist leaders-some 300 from 75 parties-were deposited at the Kremlin before 10 a.m. each morning. After four hours of eloquence, the delegates had a two-hour break. Most of them dined on caviar and cold cuts in the first-floor dining room of the Great Kremlin Palace. In a pointed show of conviviality, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and other Russian leaders pulled up chairs to various tables and joined the foreign delegates. Then it was back to business in ornate St. George's Hall for the afternoon's hortatory...
Thereafter a war of the sexes set in of unparalleled intensity, out of which came one of the great war poems of all time: Brian Merriman's "Midnight Court," written in the late 18th century. In it, a beautiful young woman complains that the men won't marry her, but only have eyes for the rich old hags. An aging husband lashes back: the young girls are tarts, who will sleep with anyone and beggar a man to boot. Not so, screams the woman. A girl's a poor drudge, looking for a little pleasure between childbirths...
...They are not leaving the way they were; or else they're leaving and coming back, trained and with a stake. To keep the place lively, the government has announced some eyecatching tax breaks for writers and artists. After all, they say to the English, "our ancestors were great scholars while yours were still running around in blue paint." Perhaps the next dream of the ahistorical Irish, besides the usual one of flooding the world with poets, priests and bums, is to become a cultural sanctuary-after other people have returned to wearing blue paint...
...have been the jewels of the Crown's fabulous collection of 20,000 to 30,000 prints and drawings. In fact, they are so dearly prized that, in the words of Robin Mackworth-King, Windsor Castle's librarian, "the Queen feels her responsibility to posterity is too great to assume the risks of sending them abroad." A few are displayed in the Windsor Castle gallery on a rotating basis (scholars, however, may examine them in the archives any time). This summer, a huge sampling of the treasure has been put on view at the eight-year-old Queen...
...suffered a paralysis of his working arm. Most important, the exhibition encompasses the extraordinary diversity of Leonardo's interests and achievements. Armaments, navigation, map making, mathematics, anatomy, botany, astronomy-his investigations into all of them are graphically annotated. The continual restlessness of his great mind can be seen in the numerous sheets on which he had sketched, say, a gearwheel mechanism, only to move swiftly on to a series of male nudes or a study of ocean waves without even changing paper. Then again, he might use an empty corner to jot down a scientific observation or a moral...