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...Summers introduced Kirby as the dean-to-be, saying, “The better people know Bill…the more loudly they tend to sing his praises.” And he bid the East Asia scholar well with a Chinese expression of good will: “I wish you a prosperous wind...
...covenant whose Grand Masters, including Leonardo Da Vinci and Isaac Newton, have sworn to protect this royal blood line? Is Opus Dei, the conservative Catholic sect Brown paints in such lurid colors, really that awful? Can a fictional thriller that is nothing more or less than (as one Biblical scholar called it) "a great plane read" be taken seriously as an ecclesiastical exposé? (My short answers: No, no, no, no idea...
...script is doggedly faithful to Brown's plot: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Hanks) is paired with pert police detective Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), and against Silas, the albino hit man from Opus Dei, as they race from Paris and environs to London and environs in the company of crippled scholar Leigh Teabing (Ian McKellen) to discover the meaning and whereabouts of the Holy Grail, a central artifact in Christian mythology. We eventually learn that, unawares, our hero and heroine have attracted the attention of rival gangs of learned loonies, latest in a millennial line of combatants over the central tenet...
...Chevrolet coupe") and real Yiddish, as when French soldiers sing, "A vous toot dir veh, a vous?" and the nine Supreme Court justices declare, "We're the A.K.'s / Who give the O.K.'s" - A.K.'s meaning alterkockers. (For this lore I thank Alan Abrams, Time's Broadway-musical scholar in residence, who played Wintergreen in summer stock a few years back...
...Earlier this week, Diana Sorensen, a scholar of Latin American literature and culture, was appointed dean for the humanities to serve in the place of current dean Maria Tartar, who will be on sabbatical during the coming academic year. “During my one-year tenure in the position, I hope to continue the excellent work of Dean Maria Tatar, and to help in the forthcoming transitions,” Sorensen wrote in an e-mail yesterday...