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...answer opened last week in the conservative and flintily traditional community of Newport, R.I. It is an exhibition named "Monumenta," organized by Art Historian Sam Hunter and a staff of his graduate students from Princeton and backed by an enthusiastic Newport resident named William Crimmins. Fifty-four large works by 40 artists have been installed on the island's shores, in its shopping center and around the gardens of its mansions: an encyclopedia of large-scale sculpture from the U.S. and Europe. "Monumenta" runs through Oct. 13, providing an unexpected cultural foil to the America's Cup races...
...have to its environment: an undulating meander maze, a barely noticeable ripple on the lawn, covered with sod grass. It is low-key and perfectly appropriate in its site, harking back to a time when stately homes had garden labyrinths as a matter of course. In sum, the "Monumenta" project discloses a great deal about the survival of public sculpture in the 1970s in something other than its usual urban form-a grandiose ashtray plunked down to decorate a skyscraper's barren forecourt. The Newport exhibition is worth the trip, even though few things in it are quite...
...Scientific and cultural groups are increasing their contacts. Scholars from three West German and two East German universities work shoulder to shoulder in East Berlin preparing the authoritative German dictionary and Monumenta Germaniae Historiae...
Elder has written scholarly works on Catullus, Lucretius, Horace, Servius, and Latin Textual criticism. An editor of the Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, he is also a member of Princeton's Visiting Committee on the Classics, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philological Association, and the Monumenta Germanize Historica...
Jenkins likes to think of the Monumenta as the first great "encyclopedia of the nation's sources ... a virtual blood bank of the vital life blood of research ... It is delivered," says he proudly, "for the everlasting service...