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...reattributions were a downgrading. Restudying a landscape attributed to a minor Dutch artist, Allart van Everingden, Fahy's experts concluded that it was painted by Jacob van Ruisdael, one of the great landscapists of all time, thereby increasing its assessed value at least tenfold. The experts decided that a nativity "attributed to the Florentine school" had been painted by Giotto himself...
...County, whose rural hills have lured many New Yorkers and Bostonians into seasonal or permanent residence. The paper often seems to be written for the city folk. In the summer, its entertainment pages become a sophisticated guide to music at Tanglewood, drama at the Berkshire Playhouse, and dance at Jacob's Pillow...
Another dimension of that orientation is sketched by Religion Scholar Jacob Needleman, author of The New Religions and, like Thompson, a cartographer of the revival of mysticism. Men lost a certain humility, Needleman says, when they abandoned the medieval idea of geocentrism-the belief that the earth is surrounded by ever widening spheres of planets, stars and finally God. Copernicus and Galileo dislodged the earth from the astronomical center of the universe, but Needleman argues that geocentrism "was never intended only as an astronomical theory. It was meant to communicate that human existence is but a tiny part...
...contemporaries. On top of all that, he was evidently a likable, unpretentious man of the world, gifted in languages, poetry and science, a fit partner for any woman on the dance floor, and any man's match in the billiard room. Who was the man? Why, Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy...
ATLANTIC CITY IN THE FALL is like a whore house on Sunday morning, the denuded neon playgrounds of merchandising America. It is the ghost town of the Penthouse pleasure seekers stinking with the excrements of honky-tonk commercialism. The King of Marvin Gardens, written by Jacob Brackman and directed by Bob Rafelson, tortures Atlantic City's dying glory into a monopoly game of cultural dimensions, the bankrupt dead-end of the American dream...