Word: saxonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sense & Sensibility. In painting, the Romantic era in France produced the art of David, Ingres and Delacroix, but Anglo-Saxon Britain far more nearly mirrored the chaotic spirit of the age through the diverse brilliance of Gainsborough, Reynolds, Constable, Blake and Turner. How strikingly they and other British artists staked out the realm of the new sensibility in the Romantic era can be seen in a display of 236 oils, watercolors and drawings, assembled from collections in America and Europe, now at the Detroit Institute of Arts (see color pages). "British Masterpieces," which will be shown at the Philadelphia Museum...
...conspiracy is that it is a vehicle used by the prosecutor to get in evidence that he could not otherwise possibly get in." Some legal scholars agree. Yale Law Professor Abraham Goldstein says: "It threatens the whole fair-trial notion." And, he adds, it crowds the maxim of Anglo-Saxon law that a man cannot be punished for evil intent alone...
...sequel to his picture treatise, The Medium is the Massage. MacKinley Kantor has a book of reminiscences and an antebellum novel about a Southern girl who falls in love with a slave with the unlikely name of Beauty Beast. Stephen Birmingham will issue separate reports on white Anglo-Saxon Protestants and Sephardic Jews, Barnaby Conrad a memoir and a how-to-do-it on bullfighting, Muriel Spark poems and stories, Tom Wolfe a collection of essays and a report on Novelist Ken Kesey, the Norman Mailer of the West Coast. But all this conspicuous industry settles into sloth when compared...
...finely chiseled plaque of Christ with the twelve Apostles, probably intended for a book cover and executed in Germany around A.D. 970, shortly after Otto the Great founded the Holy Roman Empire, is an unusual example that shows how Otto-nian workshops combined early Christian design with Saxon severity. Seven centuries later, Adam Lenckhardt used a single tusk of ivory to create a 17-in.-tall Descent from the Cross. Commissioned by the 17th century Prince Eusebius von Liechtenstein, the piece is unsurpassed among baroque ivory groups, accordingly to Director Lee. It is notable for its dulcet softness, subtlety...
Harvard audiences have heard Borges recite Latin, French and German extemporaneously and translate all into flawless English. He quotes as readily from The Divine Comedy as from Beowulf. He has taught graduate students Anglo-Saxon, lectured at the University of Texas, made a hobby of Old Norse poetry and extended his metaphysical range to Egypt to Arabia to China...