Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FROM the days of medieval illuminators, a reverence for word and picture has gone hand in hand. The modern counterpart to the illuminated manuscript is the limited edition. Where the average gallerygoer is happy with fine reproductions on coated stock, the limited-edition bibliophile demands a creation as much portfolio...
In modern fiction's psychological jungle, her homespun plot seems both soothing and revolutionary. John Wood, trusted employee of a land-company, is regarded as a paragon of virtue in his town of some 2,000 people. He is handsome beyond compare, a superintendent of the Sunday school, and...
But most of these students intend to marry; and a girl's position as far as education is concerned is expected to be more flexible than that of her husband. The man can concentrate his education with a career in mind: his wife must usually adapt hers to him. Consequently...
In Central Europe the cold war entered another phase. On Communism's side of the Iron Curtain Stalin had died, plunging the Kremlin into years of medieval intrigue while Nikita Khrushchev emerged as new dictator. On the allies' side, the phenomenon was the emergence of Western Europe, through...
De Henriquez a stocky, fiftyish Italian archaeologist, should know, for he is the curator of one of the world's most unusual museums, devoted solely to war and its bulky artifacts. As other pack rats yearn for stamps, china cygnets, or shrunken human heads, De Henriquez cherishes the debris...