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...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...
...bastilles, he coolly sat down to write in his luxurious apartment overlooking the Bois de Boulogne, carefully dressed for literature (blue serge suit, quiet four-in-hand, expensive leather carpet slippers). An unabashed Anglophile, he became a one-man diplomatic corps to the English-speaking world; from the Anglo-Saxon point of view, he was Our Man in Paris...
Achebe's novel is set in the early 1920s, but it would be helpful to think of it as a book that might very well have been written by an Anglo-Saxon chronicler about the 4th century A.D., just before the last Roman legion was to leave Britain; when Roman law was about to disappear and leave a crude, illiterate people to deal as best they could with Celtic chaos, superstition and the flickering light of Christianity. Modern Nigerians oppressed by a feeling of culture lag may optimistically reflect that the natives of Britain had in their future...
GUNSMOKE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A young gunsmith from the East, Newly O'Brien (Buck Taylor), moves to Dodge City, but en route is abducted by a border cutthroat (John Saxon) who thinks O'Brien is a doctor. Marshal Dillon rescues him and brings him to town, where he becomes a regular and adds youth to the cast...