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Booths will range from traditional games to a library booth. The Cambridge Public Library has donated a selection of books which children can "check-out" and read during the party, and books will be for sale as well...
...17th century the classical world was the locus of ideal beauty, but how did a Frenchman enter it? A writer could read Vergil without leaving Paris, but a painter had to go to Rome. There, ancient sculpture and architecture abounded; from them, antiquity could be reimagined. It was the strength of the reimagining, not just its archaeological correctness, that counted. Poussin's main regular job during his Roman years was drawing records of ancient sculpture for a rich antiquary and scholar named Cassiano dal Pozzo. This gave him excellent access to collections, and the time to develop the repertoire...
Mahfouz's untranslated trilogy Al-Thulathiyya (1957) is a 1,500-page family saga that spans 27 years and both World Wars and is read as a microcosm of Cairene society. He supported Gamal Abdel Nasser's 1952 coup d'etat but gradually grew disillusioned with the colonel's policies. "It is true that the revolution liberated the Egyptian people and pushed them into modern life," says Mahfouz, "but it led to many wars that tired us out." Mahfouz found himself at the center of controversy in 1979 when he publicly backed Anwar Sadat's peace treaty with Israel...
...read about the problems of racism on [northern] campuses, I realize that because of the long experience we've had with racism here, our history is more amenable to solving problems," he said. "We are not going to run into much that we haven't in the past...
Doing my business the other day, I ran across a dilemma; which to read: the October issue of the Enquirer or John C. Yoo's editorial, "Marshals of the Resume Parade." I decided on the former, but found the later, if not as informative, equally useful. Caroline Bicks...