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Soviet experts, restoring ancient ikons in the Winter Garden of Moscow's Kremlin, found two, three and even four paintings underlying each other on the same wooden panel, concealed beneath centuries of grime and smoke. The lowest layers showed pure Byzantine work of the 11th Century, antedating the Italian primitives and giving evidence of the sources of inspiration for much early Western...
...wonderful light has been revealed glowing beneath the dust of centuries, a famous panel lost for nearly 400 years. It was part of a sale at auction in Prague, and was discovered by Dr. Gustav Weil, collector, through an obscure Persian inscription and a signature almost buried in grime. The "light that never was on land or sea" was painted by Rembrandt, if by any one. His pictures glow with a peculiar mellow intensity that can hardly have existed in the actual scene before him. While the light from Rembrandt's brush falls on them, they are people...
...privilege par excellence of the graduate is to say "I remember . . ." The undergraduate does not remember anything; he has no right to remember: his is the world of daily routine and ordinary values. But once--on Commencement--he has passed through the Portals and the rub and grime of the present are things of the past, his imagination starts its work of transforming and softening these ordinary values. Then, with a new note in his voice, he begins quoting "I remember when...
...ease and luxury. Save for the brief campaigns of the Spanish War, the colors have been used largely as part of the bright dress of holiday rejoicings, of national anniversaries and expositions. They have not, in the thoughts of the present generation, been closely associated with the blood and grime of battlefields, with the sort of self-sacrifice of which a man offers the best that he has--his life...
...mile run: Harvard.--Blackman, Boyd, Carter, MacLure, Southworth, Zamore; Cornell--Cadiz, Clark, Corwith, Eldred, Hoffmire, Grime, Potter...