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...started again by commissioning portraits of recently deceased rich people, then selling the paintings to the bereaved families. Later he began collecting paintings for wealthy clients, and finally established a hugely successful gallery in New York. His greatest coup was the discovery at an auction of the lost El Greco, Christ Healing the Blind...
...entirely to Plautus--Rome's first comic playwright--as well as English translations of Plautine comedy. An extensive treatise on Terence, a kind of sequel to Roman Laughter, remains unfinished as Segal develops new insight from recent findings of the Greek playwright Menenader which may place the whole of Greco-Roman comedy in better perspective. In the meanwhile, his Death of Comedy, a study of comic theory from Aristophanes to Samuel Beckett will be published in January...
...attitude toward Nixon's impending trip to Moscow is mostly ho-hum. "I don't care whether he goes or not," says Dominic Greco, of Dayton. "I don't think it makes a difference, because one day Russia is with us and the next day they're against...
...most of his working life, critics dismissed him as a pedantic illustrator. Born in 1898, Escher was 52 before his tightly executed woodcuts, lithographs and engravings began to attract even a crumb of attention. A retiring, ironic man with the bony nose and goat beard of an El Greco prelate, Escher took no part in art debates, lived quietly in a village outside Amsterdam, and made few claims for his work. It was improvisation, he insisted: his prints contained nothing that they did not openly state. "Do I have to say that none of these fantasies have any pretension...
National Unity. The Greek Premier warned Makarios, in effect, to let the Greco-Turkish talks proceed and abide by their formulas, whatever the outcome might be. The Premier also advised Makarios to form a government of "national unity" with Grivas supporters as part...