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Gullberg, official English translator in the Swedish Foreign Office, has published the first volume, a 1,246-page book containing 130,000 extensive entries, which is unique in that, where necessary, he renders the Swedish in both the Queen's English and the American variety. It has been hailed by scholars, businessmen, diplomats, technicians and others who work in the two languages. Lexicographer Gullberg subscribes to and carefully reads 40 English-language publications, including the London and New York Times, the Financial Times, the Economist, the Guardian, TIME and LIFE. His first and main source of new English words...
Last October the West German Evangelical Church, a 30 million-member amalgam of the nation's major Protestant churches, decided to blast the Oder-Neisse question off dead center. In a 44-page memorandum, the church argued that German legal claims to the lost territories were balanced by the "grave injustice" done to Poland by Nazi...
...photographs of beautiful dresses presented the way designers intended. Now the photographers distort a suit or dress beyond recognition. I know one designer who looked through an issue of Vogue 14 times and didn't recognize his own dress. He had to go through the credits on each page to figure out which...
...awkward poses in bizarre settings. On the other hand, it's my selfish purpose to see my clothes looking beautiful; it's the photographer's selfish purpose to be famous; it's the art director's selfish purpose to have a striking, stylish page; it's the magazine's selfish purpose to sell ads and issues. With all these selfishnesses, you just come up with one big crumbier...
...oils is Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra del Bend, a painting that is strikingly evocative of the Louvre's Mona Lisa. It is the only recognized Leonardo not yet on a museum wall. Such may not long be the case. In a front-page story, the New York Times last week reported that Ginevra* had caught the eye of the prince of collectors. Said the headline: $6 MILLION...