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The museum's earliest crude stone implements take cavemankind back to about 100,000 B.C. More recent galleries commemorate the multifaceted Arabic culture that flourished from the 10th to the 13th centuries after Christ. In between are writings older than the Bible,* the world's oldest statuary, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Museums: Custodian for the Fertile Crescent | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

Non-Man-Eaters. Breeding and survival rates among fish impose the only major limit on T.F.H.'s sales growth, and this is a problem that even the multifaceted Dr. Axelrod has not yet solved. Until he does, Axelrod compensates by prodding chiefs of his 14 subsidiaries; he insists that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: Piranhas, Anyone? | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

Sir: Your Essay on divorce law [Feb. 11] is a most articulate and fair summation of this chaotic legal circus. The tragedy of an unhappy marriage is multifaceted; too often the legality of dissolving it only compounds the felony. Let us hope our state legislators will take a fresh, reasonable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 18, 1966 | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the work is dramaturgically inferior to the other three plays. For one thing, it is, despite the gleaming hero at its center, less integrated. It is more a collection of scenes than it is one multifaceted play. Possibly Shakespeare was so carried away with his own ardor that he...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Henry V Joins Stratford Festival | 7/9/1963 | See Source »

Jacques Lipchitz, 68, did for sculpture what the cubists did for painting: he broke up forms into multifaceted geometry. But the cubist method seemed to him to stop, ultimately, at crystallization. Accordingly, he decided "from the crystal to build a man, a woman, a child." This tension between geometric and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Maker of Images | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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