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...died in 1890 at 79, she arranged for him to receive the last sacrament of the Roman Church. He had been dead for two hours, but the priest took her word that he was alive. Then, "sorrowfully, reverently, and in fear and trembling," she set about burning his manuscript of The Scented Garden, an encyclopaedic sex manual whose translation from the Arabic had occupied Burton's last years (a partial version survived). Also into the flames went his private journal of 40 years, which he had kept under lock and key. This act left her free to clean...
Divide by 10. That theory was proposed in 1960 by University of Athens Seismologist Anghelos Galanopoulos, who believes that Plato misread by a factor of 10 the dimensions of Atlantis and the date of its destruction given in an Egyptian manuscript. Dividing by 10, Galanopoulos came up with an area roughly encompassing Thera and Crete; similarly reducing Platos date to 900 years before Solon, he moved the destruction of Atlantis forward to about 1490 B. C. At about that time, a well-documented volcanic eruption plunged large portions of Thera into the sea, rained lethal vapors and debris on Crete...
...display of documentary materials features manuscript letters of Negro and white abolitionists, including a number of Frederick Douglass items recently discovered in the South End and never before exhibited. Among the letter-writers are long-time Massachusetts senators Charles Sumner and Henry Cabot Lodge; Negro leader George T. Downing; and publisher-politician Cassius Marcellus Clay. A letter of President Grant, dated 1872, says in part: "I sympathize most cordially in any effort to secure for all our people, of whatever race, nativity or color, the exercise of those rights to which every citizen should be entitled...
This weekend at Yale, for example, an estimated 450 alumni and wives will be paying $12.50 per person for four-day seminars on such subjects as organic evolution, manuscript study and the changing world of scholarship, films as 20th century art. Harvard, which has set aside one day of its reunions for intellectual activity for ten years now, is offering grads two "university symposia"-one on Asia and the U.S. future moderated by former Presidential Assistant Adam Yarmolinsky, another on student careers, at which one lecturer will be Sociologist David Riesman. At nearby M.I.T., the alumni reunion features management seminars...
...choreography, Kenneth MacMillan has been slavishly faithful to Shakespeare and the result is moments which are almost more dramatic than the master's version. The balcony and tombstone scenes are among the most exciting moments of any art form. But MacMillian may have been almost too faithful to the manuscript there are a number of scenes in front of the Capulets' home for instance, which have no value at all to the action of the ballet...