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...legend, one of a legion of its kind, contains a truth about the art of China more telling than any archaeological find: for centuries, the Chinese attributed almost magical powers to their artists. This week gallerygoers who care to risk the dragons will be able to rediscover the magic at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Works ranging from bronze urns and jade dishes to scroll paintings more than 1,000 years old will be shown in one of the most spectacular exhibitions of Chinese art ever seen. The treasures were selected by a jury of Chinese and American...
...Fitzgerald, Hemingway rarely dealt with the American scene after his early Nick Adams stories of hunting and fishing in the West. Internationally, Hemingway belonged with Eliot, Yeats and Joyce as one of the prime shapers of modern literature, but temperamentally he was more akin to that roving intellectual foreign legion of Malraux, Camus and Koestler, who sent back communiques from all the battlefronts of the 2Oth century consciousness and conscience...
...Navy Medal of Honor is not only inelegant, it does not even hang gracefully from its ribbon. The Bronze and Silver Stars are almost childish in design, and the propeller motif of the Distinguished Flying Cross looks like the work of a mechanic. Though the Legion of Merit is better, even it seems shoddy compared to France's Legion of Honor...
...Regular Army. Nobody could figure out just what to do with the 40,000 tough regular soldiers in Algeria, including the 15,000-man Foreign Legion, who had sided with the rebels. Three regular regiments would be dissolved, and the rest were confined to their barracks in an ugly mood. De Gaulle closed the Foreign Legion's recruiting office in Paris, and the end was apparently in sight for the storied corps that for 130 years had fought France's worst battles, from the Crimea to Dienbienphu. Today's legionnaire is a downright gentleman compared with...
...Cambridge City Council last week all city officials to see the Legion ing. Was the Council there? "No," the Legionnaire. "Only Mayor here. That...