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Cast up in America after the war, Brill founded his school on the shore of one of the Great Lakes. The institution boasted a dual curriculum: "the Priceless Legacy of Scripture and Commentaries," and social studies and French. As Brill puts it, "The waters of Shiloh springing from the head of Western Civilization." But the experiment flops. Hopelessly inept as a pedagogue and judge of children, Brill blames his school's failure on its students, whom he dismisses as "commoners, weeds, the children of plumbers." Given such contempt, he fails to recognize genius when it comes his way. Beulah...
...Cooley, an urbane 60-year-old, and his astute wife Ellen reach the Toulouse-Carcassonne canal, Kate has just surfaced, as dead as Ophelia, in a lock. In a classic, Christie-precise scenario, Cooley discovers that the murders almost certainly involve Kate's obsessive desire to own a priceless 35-carat ruby, a relic of the Crusades, which was stolen and has been missing for several years...
...IDAF, by providing funds for lawyers, serves a "priceless" function, Gomes says. Because most South Africans tried for political crimes have little money, they have difficulty obtaining lawyers, since there is no free public defense in South Africa. The IDAF, says Gomes, offers the necessary financial stimulus...
...Marbles before the Seventh Earl of Elgin removed them in 1801 with the agreement of the occupying Turkish Ottoman Empire. Athens says it wants them back; the British say that the Greeks have, terribly sorry, permanently lost then-marbles. During her tour of the museum, Mercouri admitted that the priceless sculptures were "very well kept. But on foreign earth." Did she really think Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher would ever allow the marbles to leave Britain? Replied Mercouri with Mediterranean magnificence: "Why not? She's a woman...
...film vaults by his widow, and to numberless outtakes from the pictures he made in 1916-17 for the Mutual Film Co., which are now controlled by a silent-film collector-impresario, Raymond Rohauer. From hundreds of hours of this material, the pair has fashioned not only a priceless contribution to film history, but an essay that makes visible that most invisible of human endeavors, the creative process...