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...oldest aircraft on display is Otto Lilienthal's 1894 glider, with its willow-and-bamboo frame and cotton-cloth covering. When Lilienthal died near the turn of the century, his last words were reported to be: "Sacrifices must be made." In the museum's military aviation exhibits, that sense of sacrifice is pervasive, if in a different context. The most durable warplanes are there: the Fokker, Spad XVI (Billy Mitchell's own), P-40E, B26, Spitfire, German Messerschmitt and Italian Macchi MC-202. So is the old workhorse of World War II-and beyond...
...OBSOLESCENCE. For most of human history, the norm had been continuity. Change was news. Daily-lives were governed by tradition. The most valued works were the oldest...
...Masterworks in Wood" covers a lot of ground, once over and rather lightly. One of the oldest objects in it, a lean and time-scarred funerary horse, was made in China late in the Eastern Chou dynasty, some 2,200 years ago; the more recent works include a scholar's writing box and an incised sign from a sake shop in 19th century Japan. The works are predominantly Buddhist, although there are two or three exceptional Shinto cult objects. The stylistic range is also very broad. Some of the pieces are, in essence, conventional religious decoration -like the spectacular...
...heroines are me," says Rosemary Rogers. With her big dark eyes, full red lips, mass of raven hair and Las Vegas body, she looks the part - and she has lived some of it. The oldest child of a wealthy educator who owned three posh private schools in Ceylon, Rosemary Jansz was raised in colonial splendor: dozens of servants - never did a lick of work - summers at European spas - impossible to go anywhere without a chaperone. A dreamy child, she wrote her first novel at eight, and all through her teens scribbled madly romantic epics in imitation of her favorite writers...
...writing the book, author E.F. Schumacher has drawn heavily on his own experience. A founder of the Intermediate Technology Group of which he writes, he is also president of the Soil Association, one of Britain's oldest organic farming leagues. Twenty years as chief economist and head of planning for the British National Coal Board shaped his opinions on nationalized industry. A former Rhodes scholar, Schumacher is also a close student of Ghandi, non-violence and ecology...