Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...library of 1850 helps one to understand that epoch in its own terms, as a past present facing an unknown future, rather than through hindsight, as past with known future. Where hindsight finds foolishness, empathy will enable the student to learn how hard it was to avoid foolishness...
...West Indian 42 yrs, old, at the age of 15 I became an apprentice and a journeyman at age 20. I migrated to England where I worked for several well-known establishments during which time I entered The British Institute of Engineering Technology to study Interior and Exterior Decorating and Painting, specializing in color pigments, marbleizing, staining, graining, etc., and was awarded a diploma upon completion, was made a member of the Institute for life enabling me to use the initials A.M.I.E.T. Also I have worked for several Union and Non-Union outfits in Boston and at one time operated...
...Dante scholar and professor of Romance languages at Yale offers a translation that tries to stay faithful to Dante's poetic rhythms but wisely avoids any attempt to match his terza rima rhyme scheme. As in many translations of classics, there are disquieting changes in well-known lines. Gary's familiar 1814 "All hope abandon, ye who enter here," for instance, becomes "Bid hope farewell, all ye who enter here." It may be more reflective, but it is less ominous and powerful. Leonard Baskin's murky, impressionistic black-and-white line drawings and washes fail to evoke...
Vincent Van Gogh by Marc Edo Tralbaut. 350 pages. Viking. $40. The tortured impressionist painter is so well known that to present him to the public again, one critic has observed, would be like presenting Christ to Christians. Nevertheless this is a splendid job. Calling upon more than 50 years of devoted research, the Belgian art scholar Marc Edo Tralbaut has put together the most satisfying study of Van Gogh's life and works...
...mild bunch descends on the cash resources of NATO, which are being moved from France to Belgium via freight train. Three separate elements pursue the loot: a tough Mafioso (Eli Wallach), two French thieves (Bourvil and Jean-Paul Belmondo) and an elegant supercriminal (David Niven) known respectfully as "the Brain...