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...hilltop is Lausanne's famed cathedral. Built in 1219, it is Switzerland's largest, with intricate stained-glass windows and Gothic artifacts. Every night from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., one of Europe's last criers announces the hour, practically the only nighttime noise in this otherwise quiet city. Since this is the highest point in Lausanne, you can look down over the rooftops of the Old Town all the way toward the lake...
...what? Well, it complicates matters, suggesting that gradual cultural exchange has played a quiet but constant role in human history - and that invasions aren't necessarily all they have been cracked up to be. Thirty years ago the dominant theory was that the precursor of the Indo-European languages came to Europe on the tongues of warrior horsemen from the Pontic steppes of present-day Ukraine, and that the broad dispersal of those languages across the Continent was a tribute to their martial success. Then in 1987 Renfrew made a powerful case that it was the Neolithic farmers who brought...
...participation of its members. But they don't think of themselves as rebels, either. Mishima would hate these guys. Connoisseurs of the exotic will find little to savor here. American and European readers would be mistaken if they imagined these characters to be entirely familiar, but in their own quiet way they seem emblematic of creeping globalization in one of the world's most insular and traditional societies...
...competition is civilized, sanitized and oddly quiet. We mutter to our friends about how so-and-so doesn’t deserve that job, office or girlfriend, when the same prize has been denied to us. We sit in coffee shops and carp about how everyone else has a summer job, or won a fellowship, and how terribly unfair...
Ablow cites artists Fra Angelico and Piero as some of his greatest influences, and one can feel the quiet and stable Italian Renaissance sensibilities at work in his paintings. However, Ablow’s paintings are not all serene harmony and immaculate balance. There is a considerable amount of distortion and tension as well: tabletops swerve away from the horizon, cups tip up against the laws of perspective, and drapes fall in completely unnatural ways. In “Studio Dialogue” a jar is partially-hidden, as its left side has no visible correlation with its asymmetrical right...