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...CRUSADES by Zoé Oldenbourg. 650 pages. Pantheon...
HOPSCOTCH by Julio Cortazar. 564 pages. Pantheon...
...successors-might be more amenable to reason, and the U.S. should encourage any sign of mellowing in the Chinese revolution. Though Mao would hardly appreciate the comparison, Fairbank said that the Chinese leader actually more closely resembles the prototypical Chinese emperor than any of his heroes in the Marxist pantheon. Eventually, he said, the better side of the feudal Chinese ruler may reassert itself in his successors. China is still governed, after all, by a "great Confucian political fiction, the myth of rule by virtue...
Undertakers' Upholstery. As a pantheon, the Abbey is an incredible clutter. After a shrine was built to honor Edward the Confessor in the Abbey, British nobility rushed to be buried there. As a result, visitors today bump into tombs at every turn. William Morris called the funereal sculptures (see overleaf) "pieces of undertakers' upholstery." Ruskin labeled them "ignoble, incoherent fillings of the aisles...
...album of remembrance littered with memorabilia in stone, a storehouse of history. The historian Macaulay called the Abbey a "temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of a thousand years lie buried." It is Valhalla, Arlington Cemetery, the tombs on Red Square, a combination of Paris' Pantheon and the Montparnasse Cemetery. After nine centuries, it remains a silent place full of lost hope and renewed energy...