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Museum of Fine Arts. Recent American Photography, Twentieth Century Photos, Pictorial Photography, Photography in Contemporary Printmaking. And the Nikons shall inherit the Earth. If you would prefer a little color in your life, try the exhibit of English embroidery and be thankful you weren't female in the seventeenth century. The stuff is beautiful, but...Also, I have been told by the usual reliable sources to beware of the Tlingit Thunderbird. He bites...
Almost outside the realm of Restoration comedy, The Plain Dealer is practically unique among its seventeenth century counterparts. Whereas the plays of Etherege, Congreve and Farquhar are characterized by a lack of genuine emotion, a plot of less weight than their racy, epigrammatic wit, and an absence of realism, William Wycherley reversed these trends, hastening the decay of the comedy of manners. Pure intellect was replaced by feeling, pure wit by emotion. The Plain Dealer is an intriguing mixture of realism and artificiality, of emotion and intellect, lacking meanwhile the polished style and all-pervasive wit of the great masters...
ALTHOUGH WOMEN HAVE comprised at least one-fifth of the undergraduate community at Harvard since 1972, they have received less than one-seventeenth of the prize funds opened to them at that time by legal action of the university. This evidence, gathered in a study conducted by the OGCP and the Office of Women's Education, shows that an official or legal lowering of barriers to women at the University does not automatically solve all problems of access...
...recent study, released this week, reveals that although the University's 1972 legal action opened competition for 29 male-only monetary prizes to women, women students in the last two years have won only one-seventeenth of the prize funds for which they are newly eligible...
...SEEDS of the dynasty's artistic disintegration had been sown at the very beginning of the century. From the first, as Professor Welch comments, seventeenth century Persian art relied more for its effect on the brilliance of its surface than on the soundness and originality of its conception. Just as the magnificence of Shah Abbas's public buildings masked the growing corruption of the society they glorified, the gold leaf and arabesques of Isfahan's art too often hid hackneyed ideas and careless workmanship. Isfahan fades like a mirage when you try to touch it. Yet, seen from the right...