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When affirmative action is buried, the eulogy will be performed by a black scholar. And as the mourners depart, a black intellectual will be heard to ask, "What's next?" A chorus of voices will answer, "The Emancipation Proclamation!" (SCPO) Elwyne D. McFalls U.S.N. (ret.) Tulsa...
...more works were painted by someone else. Special neutron photography confirmed that The Man with the Golden Helmet, a beloved masterpiece housed at West Berlin's Staatliche museum, does not match known examples of Rembrandt's work. After that dismaying news, London's National Gallery announced that its Scholar in a Lofty Room bears the signature of a Rembrandt imitator. "The fact that Helmet is not a Rembrandt may be disappointing, but it is still a very good work," says Berlin Curator Jan Kelch. While the museum will rehang it and has no intention of selling it, the raw realities...
...Canada's most respectable financial institutions. Worse, the aspiring biographer must admit that he cannot determine the influences that molded his man. Research has led only to the impenetrable mystery suggested by the old English proverb: "What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh." The scholar despairs: "What's bred in the bone! Oh, what was bred in the bone...
...couple's three grown daughters have taken up careers based on the works of Carl Jung, one as a practicing therapist and the other as a scholar and teacher of psychology. "I'm not a born-again Jungian," says Davies of the analyst whose influence is discernible throughout his fiction. "But I find that Jung provides rich feeding for a novelist, with his layers and depth of meaning." Davies' increased leisure has given him more time to read and reread his favorites: Trollope, Dickens, Balzac and Stendhal. "If you pay attention to great literature," he says, "you don't have...
...Education A young scholar from Kansas claims to have found a long-buried poem by Shakespeare, but other experts have their doubts...