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...this year one senior wrote her thesis on Alcott. Why is there such a deep concern about what children read? Children’s literature seems to have some mythic power of shaping the minds of tomorrow. To some extent this power is real: my conception of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is still largely based on its portrayal in “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.” And because of the medium’s power, children’s literature today has become an amalgamation of commercial interests, political correctness...
...these photographs of the same house, but also of two sides of the same wall, a possibility supported by the patterns of light.BACK THEN, THEY HAD CAMELS“Vanished Kingdoms” has traveled well in the past four years, making many stops (including the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History) since the photographs made their public debut in 2003 at Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum.Harvard’s Peabody Museum, which co-organized the exhibition with the Peabody Essex, is the show’s last stop, and it warrants a visit before it closes...
Another burial ground outside the walls of the fort, dating from 1610 to 1630, holds some 80 individuals. From them, forensic anthropologists at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington determined that the average male inhabitant died at age 25, with women living slightly longer. (At the time, Kelso notes, life expectancy for lower-class residents of London was about 20 years; for the upper class, it was about 40.) To the scientists' surprise, hardly any of the graves contained infants...
...around the country. "The furniture - you touch it and you feel New Orleans," says Palleroni, whose first three prototypes - a minimalist pew, table, and set of nesting boxes - will be on display starting May 4 at the "Design for the Other 90%" exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City...
...this award, he suggested to Boyers, “Why don’t we just put together what’s on the walls and tell people about it?” The committee, comprised of Mayo, two representatives from Houghton Library, and two representatives from the Fogg Museum, was impressed by Massey’s personal connection to these works of art, Mayo said. Massey added that the collection is a “way of remembering things.” “It’s a way of keeping some beauty in my life...