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...start of a week-long tribute, the Tower, refurbished with the help of funds from Film Director John Huston, Playwright Sean O'Casey and Poet T. S. Eliot, was dedicated as a James Joyce museum, housing first editions of his books, recordings of his readings, and a death mask made in 1941 in Zurich, where he died after more than 30 years of self-exile. The site was carefully chosen, for the opening scene of Ulysses is set there. So was the date, for June 16 was the 58th anniversary of "Bloomsday," the day of Leopold Bloom...
...four-ton monsters by trailer truck. It was 1 a.m., 38 hours after his admission, when Douma was carried into the chamber after it was finally set up in a lot at the rear of the hospital. Two doctors fitted him with a special oxygen mask, and stayed with him inside the steel chamber as he was flooded with about 50% oxygen...
...discover these large designs, Commager had to pay infinite attention himself to Horace's constant changes in tone, and to his continual use of literary convention as a mask. In a single poem of thirty odd lines, Horace may shift many times between elegiac intensity and utter detachment. The pleasure of reading Horace is the pleasure of sensing these transitions; Commager has smoothed the road to Elysium...
Systematically, Romains's extraterrestrial observer examines each of man's achievements and judges each a sad reminder of its better past. But inescapably, a question arises: How can this Martian be so filled with nostalgia for a world he never knew? It is then that the mask falls away-it is not a book of discovery, but a book of reminiscence. Romains, an old man (now 76), has written an old man's book, and in the end, he offers a warning drawn from the only lesson Men of Good Will taught: there...
...play opens on the balanced set: attendants speak, and the actors enter. The Queen wears a beautiful and impassive gold mask, and she sits, motionless. A Vagabond enters and tells the King how he has loved the Queen, never seeing her, and how he has sung to men along the roads of her beauty. Looking upon the silent Queen, though, he finds that...