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...inscriptions of donors, including some inlaid in the colorful mosaic floors, provide a working key to the social status and organization of Jewish Sardis. Some of the donors held the office of city councillors; two were jewelers...
...sense of medieval wonder that is an important part of the opera. The cast had been painstakingly and expertly drilled by Conductor Vittorio Gui. In the pit the Royal Philharmonic sounded first-rate-particularly so in a theater whose sharp acoustics are ideally adapted to Debussy's richly inlaid instrumental patterns...
After one week the diggers literally struck gold. They brought up a pouring vessel heavily inlaid with carved golden animals. One of the creatures has a human body, with a bird's wings and two animal heads. In its outstretched arms it holds two winged lions. On another part of the vessel a golden lion attacks a golden deer, Dr. Negahban suspects that these symbols are religious...
...mane. Other bowls are lively with prancing unicorns, bulls, rams, eagles, fish, a warrior in chain mail holding two leopards by their necks. The diggers turned up gold jewelry and gold household and toilet articles (ear cleaners, tweezers, needles), stone maceheads, terra-cotta figurines, a marble sword hilt inlaid with gold and lapis lazuli. Said one ragged workman as he watched the stream of treasure: "How rich and careless we were to cast our gold into the earth like a seed. It grew nothing and left us poor...
...White House for a long, serious talk with the President. This time, he came bearing gifts: two Pakistani rugs for the President, a painting for Mrs. Kennedy, a doll for Caroline and two silver rattles for John Jr. In return, Kennedy had Ayub measured for a tailor-made, gold-inlaid shotgun (a 12-gauge Winchester 21), which will be sent directly to Pakistan as soon as it is completed. At noon Ayub addressed Congress (see above), moved taciturn House Speaker Sam Rayburn to remark: "We have been in the presence of a man with iron in his backbone and brains...