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Nonetheless, the works conquer their unfortunate setting. There was never more heroic ornament than the exhibition's massive early Christian torques, with their thick bosses and twisted gold flanges. And it is impossible to imagine a greater virtuosity of technique than the minutely elaborate gold-wire filigree of treasures like the 8th century Tara brooch, or the magnificently precise inlaying, chasing and enameling of the silver Ardagh chalice...
...Middle East diplomacy so soon; after all, the Nixon-Kissinger policy had been to curb sharply Soviet influence in the region. But Kissinger himself has noted that Moscow would have to be brought back into the arena eventually. Says a State Department official: "The Soviets are not an ornament in the Middle East. We simply cannot reconvene Geneva without one of the co-chairmen." If Geneva collapses or is never reconvened at all, critics of the Administration will undoubtedly argue that the Russians will have won diplomatic re-entry into the Middle East, and for nothing...
...Thracians were a tall, gray-eyed, fair race, renowned mercenaries in Homer's time, fearsome cavalrymen and deadly as centaurs. They were born guerrillas with a passion for ornament, especially gold. Ancient Thrace included what is now modern Bulgaria, south-east Yugoslavia, European Turkey and part of north-eastern Greece, but the Museum of Fine Arts' current exhibition of Thracian Treasures consists only of artifacts discovered in Bulgaria. It is a sumptuous collection of objects that were the compensation if not theraison d'etre for a savage and uncertain life...
Three years of development have enabled Olds engineers to solve some other problems. A passenger who did not happen to notice the word diesel on the hood ornament or the rear of the car probably could not tell, from quietness or smoothness of ride, that he was traveling in an unconventional auto. Yet some difficulties remain. The most serious is getting the engine to start on a cold morning. Since the whole principle of diesel ignition is to raise the temperature of the fuel mixture by compressing it into a superdense mass in the cylinder, a cold engine block...
Fowler boomed out of Colorado in 1918, a tall, ruggedly handsome frontiersman who had earned his journalistic spurs on the brassy Denver Post. He soon became an ornament on William Randolph Hearst's New York American, along with Damon Runyon and Ring Lardner. Fowler's style was purple but compassionate: when Ruth Brown Snyder and her paramour Judd Gray were electrocuted at Sing Sing in 1928, his account of the execution-reprinted in full in this book-was a bitter indictment of capital punishment...