Word: historians
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Died. Schneor Zalman Shazar, 84, spirited, scholarly President of Israel from 1963 to 1973; in Jerusalem. A Zionist and socialist during his youth in Russia, Shazar emigrated in 1924 to Palestine, where he edited the labor movement newspaper Davar. Poet, historian and compelling orator, he helped write Israel's declaration of independence in 1948 and served as the new state's first Education Minister before assuming -as a "man without enemies," in Premier David Ben-Gurion's phrase-the primarily ceremonial presidency. More traditional a Jew than many Zionist leaders, Shazar regularly played host to fellow Bible...
...world since the miraculous show of the royal family's Leonardo collection at Buckingham Palace in 1969. It accompanies an ambitious publishing project-the McGraw-Hill five-volume facsimile of the so-called Madrid codices: two recently discovered Leonardo notebooks, edited and translated by the late technological historian Ladislao Reti, to be published this month at $400 the set ($750 de luxe) and bound, rather bathetically, in red vinyl morocco. The codices themselves are incomparable...
...president's office, one must be in sympathy with the concept, otherwise it would be an imposition to ask you to serve; to serve in the Afro-American Studies Department, however, one need not be in sympathy with the concept, one can even be a European historian with spurious credentials in Afro-American Studies a la Professor Lewis. It matters only that you be willing to serve--and in two departments at that, joint appointments being an implicit part of the bargain...
...conform to his own ideas about it is, mercifully, almost unknown. But it happened recently-to David Smith, who died in 1965 and is probably the greatest sculptor in U.S. history. Readers of this month's Art in America were electrified to learn from an article by Art Historian Rosalind Krauss that since Smith's death seven of his late sculptures -large constructions of welded steel, finished with a white coat of primer, preparatory to painting-have been ground back to bare metal, while other finished polychrome works were simply left in the open fields outside his studio...
...Constitution authorizes Congress to make rules and regulations about disposition of property belonging to the U.S. Though there has never been a court ruling putting presidential papers in that category, a 1959 case involving Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover may be relevant. Rickover sought to bar M.B. Schnapper, a historian and editor of the Public Affairs Press in Washington, from publishing speeches Rickover had made. In effect, he was asserting a property right. The court of appeals ruled that any speeches related to Rickover's work as a Government official belonged to the public domain. Thus Schnapper won the right...