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Miro traces his imagery back to the Romanesque frescoes of his native Catalonia and the influence of his teacher Urged who left him with an obsession for the red circle, the moon, and the star. To these can be added other sources of inspiration. From Cubism, Art Nouveau, Surrcalism, he borrowed eclectically. But when the literary and formal sources were exhausted he returned to the materials themselves for suggestions. This is one of the late developments noticeable in the loan collection from the Pierre Matisse Gallery at the M.I.T. library...
...buildings are large, numerous, and well distributed. But, as the number of students increases every day, it will be necessary soon to add to the buildings. jean Pierre Brissot Nouveau Voyage dans lep Etats-Unis de l'Amerique septentrionaie...
...what men will do for money. If they want it badly enough, Jonson decided that "anything" was the answer, and worked it out in terms of wife-swapping, son-disinheriting, and general self-abasement. These are the pastimes of three confirmed lickspittles groveling after the fortune of a nouveau rich merchant. Each reaches a more advanced state of abject greed than his neighbor, and all an egged on by Volpone's social secretary, Mosca...
...France's foremost dictionary-encyclopedia. Today the Larousse books are the final popular arbiters for French words: nine out of ten Frenchmen know them, and eight out of ten families own either the one-volume Petit Larousse (1,800 pages, 70,000 words and articles), the two-volume Nouveau Larousse Universel (2,176 pages, 138,423 words and articles), or the definitive dictionary itself with 6,500 pages and 236,000 words and articles. Last week, with the new supplement, scholars and plain citizens could find out what has happened to their language-and their world-since...
...guesses among dealers. Americans seem to be buying fewer high-priced antiques, are turning increasingly to modern furnishings. New low-ceiling apartment houses and ranch homes are not suited to period furniture. On the other hand, many Europeans buy antiques as safer wealth than stocks or currency, and nouveau-riche families buy them to acquire class...