Word: oldest
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...year-old Lowdermilk's, oldest of the nation's great secondhand bookstores, was a print fancier's Golconda. In a pre-paperback age, the books themselves, passing through Lowdermilk's from one owner to another, acquired histories and characters of their own. Roaming among the shop's six miles of shelves, the browser might have come upon a 1702 edition of Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana, a signed first edition of John Brown's Body or a mint copy of Agricola's De Re Metallica signed by the translators...
...everyone even remotely connected with Harvard will meanwhile be pushing for the kind of man he wants as the chief officer of the nation's oldest University...
...SCATTERED selection of works in the exhibition does not show direct interrelationships. The large passage from the severe portraits of Colonial America to the abstract color of Hans Hoffman is not illuminated. Yet similar sensibilities toward art appear at unpredictable times. The oldest piece in the show, a Cycladic idol from an Aegean island in the third millennium, B. C., a work of majestic simplicity, resembles the work of Brancusi, a contemporary sculptor, who unfortunately is not in the exhibition...
TIME'S cover story this week examines the nation's newest-and of course oldest-freedom fighter, the American Indian, who is now seeking the means for protest and redress after more than a century of patience and passivity. Edited by Jason McManus and written by Ed Magnuson and Keith Johnson, the article drew on the research of Washington Correspondent Richard Saltonstall as well as the reports of TIME stringers in Anchorage, Carson City, Seattle and Phoenix. For at least two of the many people who contributed to it, the project had a special meaning. New York Correspondent...
...Europeans, who generally assume they have seen everything, the show was something of a revelation. "Curious paradox: the youngest among the world's great powers, the United States possesses the oldest, the most original, and just about the most authentic naive painters," admitted Paris' Figaro Littéraire with an air of astonishment. The show consisted of 111 naive American paintings from the collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, and by the time it closed, 35,000 Frenchmen had flocked to the Grand Palais to see it. In Berlin, 15,000 poured through the Amerika Haus...