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* A symbolic reference to the state of Israel. The first two temples were destroyed by invading Babylonians around 586 B.C. and by the Romans in A.D. 70
Greeting Drivers. One of the first and flashiest publishers to seize on the new promotional opportunities was Bernard Geis. He advanced the concept of the book as property into the book as package deal, and he Svengalied willing authors into writing potboilers and racy romans à clef. Incorporated in the...
News of bribery causes no surprise here in Brazil, where "special payment arrangements" are routine in all deals with government departments. In Rome, you must do as the Romans. Your multinationals are right.
The differences are all the more striking because Levit has tried to reproduce Piranesi's image as exactly as possible, trying to find the same angle, the same perspective, or a similar effect of light and shadow. He has not succeeded in a single instance. It is impossible to recapture...
Jaroslav I. Pelikan said he thinks the American people, like the Romans, have come to doubt whether or not the "future holds anything worth striving for," adding that when "ennui sets in, society atrophies."