Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high point in the art of calendar-making, if not in science, is the Zodiac Man (opposite) drawn for Jean de France, Due de Berry, between 1413-16 by the famed manuscript illuminators, the Limbourg brothers. Now one of the treasures of France's Condé Museum and a magnificent compendium of astrological lore, it was meant for the use of physicians, giving the proper time for bloodletting, purgatives, medication and even bathing. Showing a universe divided into quadrants composed of the qualities (moist, dry, cold and warm), and put in harmony with man's organs and appendages...
FROM the days of medieval manuscript illuminators to the dawn of the 18th century, Britons relied mainly on foreigners for their art. Then, in a great burst of cultural enthusiasm, the demand for-first-rate art sparked a renaissance at home, producing local talents of such high accomplishment that for 150 years Britain could claim artistic standing with any nation in Europe...
...year ago Pasternak arranged with Italian Publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli for the simultaneous publication in Russia and Italy of Dr. Zhivago, a vast (710 pages), panoramic novel of life in Russia from 1903 to 1929. Feltrinelli's agent brought a manuscript to Italy, and a translation was made. Meanwhile the powerful Union of Soviet Writers got hold of the novel, decided that its "cumulative effect" was to depict the Bolshevik revolution "as if it were the great crime in Russian history." Extensive rewriting was "suggested...
Essential Values. Pasternak dutifully wrote Feltrinelli to get his manuscript back. The publisher, himself an Italian Communist, refused on the grounds that the decision had been forced on Pasternak. In spite of a visit from Alexei Surkov, secretary of the writers' union, Feltrinelli went ahead with plans to publish the book "as a service to the author." (U.S. publication is expected next spring...
...known book, The Unfound Phrase, Dery expounded his own political philosophy in the fictional terms of a wealthy Budapest lawyer who turned to Communism as his nation's only hope. Too incendiary for publication in the days of the prewar Horthy fascist dictatorship, it was circulated widely in manuscript before going to press ten years later...