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Today in Eisenach, a benevolent bewigged stone figure beams down from a pedestal, quill in hand and manuscript paper at the ready; beyond it, high on a hill in the distance, sits the Wartburg Castle, where Luther, in disguise, completed his translation of the New Testament while hiding out from Catholic wrath and Wagner set his opera Tannhauser. In Leipzig, a sterner Bach is memorialized outside the Thomaskirche by both a full-length statue and, not far from the church, a bust dedicated by Felix Mendelssohn. Genius pays homage to even greater genius: it was the romantic Mendelssohn, a Christianized...
...type of pen wielded by a forger can be a giveaway. The quaint quill was used exclusively until 1780, when its successor, the steel pen, came into existence. The difference in writing between the two can be seen under a microscope. Fiber-tipped pens were not used extensively in the U.S. until 1964. Any forger using a pen not common in the period his document purports to derive from risks quick discovery. The modern proliferation of pens, particularly ballpoints, complicates the task of current document analysts, but can provide fresh clues. A ballpoint requires the writer to exert more pressure...
None of the four--at one time or another stellar junior skaters--competes on "the circuit" anymore, having bartered sit spins and waltz jumps for the pen and quill of academia; needless to say, studies just don't mix with the seven and eight hours daily competitive figure skaters pump into workouts (you decide which one settles to the bottom). "An Evening" affords skaters like Rehkamp et al a prestigious opportunity to showcase the fruits of what was obviously once a large part of their lives, and they take advantage of it. All four have participated before; all but Rehkamp...
...serious doubt since the last century. As North America's largest land bird, the condor has always made a seductively easy target. Indians prized its tough, 2-ft.-long feathers; 19th century hobbyists collected condor eggs, which could fetch $300. During the 1849 gold rush, its hollow quill feathers, waterproof and ½ in. in diameter, were favored as gold-dust containers. Even after the condor became a federally protected species in 1963, farming and development continued to destroy its habitat. Where condors once flourished by the thousands, all the way from Canada to Baja California, today fewer than...
Americans, too, were once fairly agile at the art, though they tended to use a club more than a quill. There was William Allen White's little note on Mencken, for example...