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...Goths of the charge that they destroyed Rome. The great city was ravaged, he writes, not by the barbarians in A.D. 410, but through imperial plundering in the 6th and 7th centuries by Byzantine Emperors Justinian and Constans II. Johnson also challenges the once popular thesis-of Max Weber and R.H. Tawney among others-that Calvinism helped nurture capitalism. In staunchly Calvinistic Scotland, Johnson notes, capitalism was long stifled. What did launch capitalism, he argues, was the decline of churchly power-whether in Calvinistic or Catholic states...
...best of the Newbury Street three-dimensional paintings will soon be superceded by a retrospective of Max Beckmann's prints (opening Oct. 2), and Graphics I and II, where Calder's print series "The Unfinished Revolution" remains til Oct. 18. print series "The Unfinished Revolution" remains till...
...committee members themselves seem less sure of the facts and much more ambivalent about the decision to drop the course than Byker implies. Max Hall, editor for the social sciences of the Harvard University Press and one of the six faculty members of the expository writing committee, said last week that he wasn't even sure whether the journalism option was being offered this year. "Although as far as I know," he said, "we've been moving in a direction of reducing 'specialized' courses...
...BILLY JOE, an extrapolation on Bobbie Gentry's 1967 back-country ballad about the young boy who jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge, is a nice surprise. Director Max Baer (Macon County Line) has a good, close feeling for the rural South, and the movie-shot on location in Mississippi-is careful about people, sharp in selecting and using details of landscape: hushed green fields, a sinuous, umbilical river, a house perched on the edge of woods as if waiting to be enfolded in the trees. Herman Raucher's screenplay concerns the real reason Billy Joe threw himself...
...Died. Max Carey, 86, former Pittsburgh Pirate and Brooklyn Dodger outfielder who stole a spot in the Hall of Fame by swiping 738 bases during a 20-year career in the majors that ended in 1933; of cancer; in Miami. Noting Carey's better success ratio, some baseball observers rate him above legendary Base Bandit Ty Cobb, who finished his 24-year American League career with 892 steals. But while in one year Cobb was thrown out 38 times in 134 attempts, Carey, in 1922, stole 51 bases in 53 attempts...