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...Slavic tribes about A.D. 100. Over the centuries it was attacked by Swedes, Livonians, Lithuanians and Norwegians. Still, few other cities preserved so many ancient churches and frescoes. Its architecture, dating from the llth to 15th centuries, is simple and even severe, characterized by perpendicular lines, lack of ornament and few windows. In World War II, Novgorod was once again attacked by foreign forces, this time the Germans, whose destruction was perhaps greater than any before. The Soviet government commissioned Shchusev, the architect who designed the Lenin Mausoleum, to plan the city's reconstruction, a program that has resulted...
...easy task. For one thing, Shaw himself spent a long lifetime creating his own image. Just where the real Shaw ends and Shaw's Shaw begins is hard to discover. The great Victorian iconoclast, moreover, survives today mainly as a great Victorian icon - the last best literary ornament of the age he helped to destroy...
...great Mahler conductors are either dead, such as Mengelberg, Furtwangler, and Walter, or, like Klemperer and Horenstein, extremely old. Since we live in a cultural ochlocracy, political beatitude aside, it is little wonder that this great nation should recognize Mahler's genius fifty years after that any, powerless ornament of the earth, Holland, Characteristically, the eruption of recent apologies have stressed him as a Bold Innovator or as a distraught mid-century man who is, like all of us course, pre-phoenix in spirit. Such descriptions might deeply engage the imagination of the creators on Easy Rider...
...Hingham Hash" Levy zinged and zanged expertly about the initial hassock. "Marvelous Marv" Allison contributed sandals, a beard and two clean hits. George "Marathoner" Amick so scared the CRIMSON that only one rightie pulled a Nieman slow pitch all afternoon. And Yardley slapped a triple to ornament his game-winning bingle...
...minutes later, they would emerge from behind the eastern edge of the moon and resume radio contact. At 7:30 a.m. and again at 9:31 p.m., they were scheduled to transmit live TV pictures of the lunar surface and of the earth, hanging like a Christmas-tree ornament far distant...