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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police battled 7,000 demonstrators, who had taken to stoning cars. The government called in troops. In Peshawar,* students, shouting antigovernment slogans, broke into the U.S. Information Service offices and ransacked them, then pelted trains and buses with rocks. Even veiled women participated in some of the protests-a rare act in conservative Moslem Pakistan. The governor of West Pakistan, Mohammed Musa, appealed three times in two weeks over nation wide radio for an end to the disturbances-in vain...
...shot in many cases from only a few feet away - the closest filming of the ceiling ever permitted. Careful tuning of the TV set is obviously required, but The Secret of Michelangelo: Every Man's Dream (ABC-TV, Dec. 5, 9:3010:30 p.m. E.S.T.) is still a rare instance of television illuminating art. The closeups of the human and heavenly throng, many of them unfamiliar except to scholars, are a powerful sight in themselves. But their impact is strengthened by the evocative narration, spoken by Christopher Plummer and Zoe Caldwell, and by the imaginative sequence of the pictures...
...justly so. But like the people say, consider the alternative. In the extremely informal comfort of an Eliot House main dining room spotted with wrestling mats, army blankets, cushions and chairs, the next weekends offer a free, funny, and frequently poignant update on Hasek, in the form of a rare English language production of Bertolt Brecht's Schweyk in the Second World War. An update it is, for in his telling epilogue to the production, translator Charles Sabel would have it emphasized that even for folk heroes times change...
...rare books go, the First Folio edition of Shakespeare's plays (1623) is not very rare: probably about 1,000 copies were printed, and well over 200 are still in existence. Though the original folio copies are the most authentic texts of Shakespeare's works, scores of them differ in innumerable minor ways-they were printed in odd lots and badly proofread. Lately, scholars, equipped with a special electronic device for detecting textual variations, have coordinated all the various versions and now offer what they assert is the clearest and most accurate composite text ever. Presented in facsimile...
...reproductions (book size: 14¾ in. by 11¼ in.) have been carefully printed to reduce the yellow cast of ancient varnish that customarily obscures Rembrandt's backgrounds. The result, though it sometimes gives the impression that the paintings have just been overzealously cleaned and scraped, offers a rare chance to linger over details normally lost in murk. Weight: 10½ pounds...