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...evaporates in the presence of a work like the Quimbaya pectoral (see color page) with its strange deity, man-bodied and bird-beaked, whose bifurcated wings of head dress echo the sweep of the gold blade beneath his feet. The sharpness of execution - perfect corrugated threads lying in their parallel curves, the sense of exacting formal detail at every part of the design - is formidable. Indeed, the goldworking cultures that flourished in the isolated river valleys of western Colombia from the end of the 1st millennium B.C. - Quimbaya and Tairona, Tolima and Muisca, Narino and Calima - shared, whatever their differences...
While the editorial "Unending Terror" appearing in this left-hand column is substantially valid, it is objectionable to present the Palestinian raid on Maalot and the Israeli bombing of Lebanon as parallel acts of terrorism without distinguishing between them. The Israeli action was wrong both morally and tactically, but it was directed at preventing future massacres of Israeli civilians, and its stated goal was to strike at terrorist bases and not at civilians. Though this does not justify the air raids, it differentiates them from the Palestinian attack, the clear thrust of which was at civilians--in this case, mostly...
Again drawing on the parallel between Mr. Shockley's invitation and Mr. Richardson's, one has to wonder how substantial The Crimson's grounds for rescinding the Class Day committee's invitation are. In each case, it has been a matter of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. While it is difficult to do, I can understand why The Crimson might have called for the withdrawal of Mr. Shockley's invitation on humanitarian grounds, but any such action on the invitation of Mr. Richardson can only be purely political...
Karefa-Smart's understanding of his own people was based on his parallel education that began when his grandfather decided that, at the age of six, he was ready for initiation into the secret Poro Society. Seventy-five years ago, that society gaimed fame for its resistance of British domination. But by the 1920s, it was actually an indigenous community school, and becoming a member was like making a social debut...
...spirit of Portugal may be more relevant even to an impeachment inquiry than the transcripts are, because it is an inspiring example of a people trying to take government into their own hands--something the American people's elected representatives in Congress are shamefully reluctant to do. And the parallel goes further than that. Getting rid of Marcello Caetano and replacing him with Antonio de Spinola didn't guarantee real change any more than replacing Richard Nixon with Gerald Ford would--but without that spur thousands of Portuguese would not have taken to the streets, no longer afraid...