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...sounded like some scathing under ground burlesque of Soviet justice circulated these days throughout Russia in tattered manuscript or smuggled out for publication in the West. But it really was Radio Moscow talking. On trial in a dingy yellow brick Moscow court house last week were bearded Critic Andrei Sinyavsky, 40, known as "Abram Tertz" in the West since his macabre manuscripts first appeared in London in 1960, and Translator Yuli Daniel, 40, alias "Nikolai Arzhak," in his underground work an equally outspoken short-story writer. In an 18-page indictment, they were charged under Ar ticle...
...light of a single fluttering candle, a tall solemn priest sits bowed above a resplendent manuscript in his solitary scriptorium. On the table before him lie vials of red and blue and purple inks, pots of honey-colored glue, sheets of gold leaf, and reams of creamy antique vellum glowing golden in the candlelight. Only the scratching of a quill interrupts the rich religious silence as the priest pursues his labor of love...
Schickele explains solemnly that he first stumbled on P.D.Q., whose existence was known only "from police records and tavern lOUs," while touring a Bavarian castle in 1953. To his amazement, he says, he found the care taker using a piece of manuscript as a strainer for his percolator. It turned out to be the Sanka cantata...
Racing against the day when the Aswan Dam will submerge a 250-mile section of the Nile Valley, University of Chicago archaeologists recently unearthed a major manuscript discovery. Dug from the ruins of a 10th century Christian monastery on the Egyptian-Sudanese border, their find is an ancient Coptic prayer book containing a hymn to the Cross recited by Jesus before the Crucifixion and a hitherto unrecorded conversation between Christ and his disciples after the Resurrection...
Sitting with his disciples on the Mount of Olives four days before the Ascension, the manuscript declares, Jesus was asked by Peter to reveal to them a mystery. Answered Christ: "O my chosen one, Peter, and you, my fellow heirs, I have not hidden anything from you ever concerning which you have asked me, nor shall I hide anything from you. Ask me anything that you wish to know, and I shall reveal it to you." Peter then asked Jesus to explain the mystery of the Cross, and why he will carry it at the Last Judgment. "O my chosen...