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...this time only two Harvard professors have taken part in the exchange. Last May, Seymour Slive, professor of Fine Arts, lectured on seventeenth century Dutch painting at Leningrad; and in December, Richard M. Goody, professor of Meteorology, spent 20 days at Moscow and Leningrad Universities...
HISTORICALLY, the reigning princes ot Liechtenstein have chosen to live outside that hereditary principality, usually in their luxurious Austrian palaces Liechtenstein offers a prince neither size (it is one-seventeenth the size of Rhode Island, has only 16,000 people) nor scope. Switzerland, its western neighbor handles posts, customs and foreign interests...
...faculty exchange program between and American and a Russian university became a reality last May when Seymour Slive, associate professor of Fine Arts, went to Leningrad to deliver a series of lectures on seventeenth century Dutch painting...
...used to import their art now decorate their homes with Sidney Nolan's poetic visions of Australia's "outback," William Dobell's savagely realistic portraits, or the landscapes of the late Aborigine Albert Na-matjira. And with Ray Lawler's play, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll-which got raves in London-Aussie audiences for the first time accorded box-office success to a play by an Australian about Australians in the Australian language...
...this work, Jordan shows that the beneficence of the new merchant classes and the landed gentry, not of the old nobility and high clergy, was responsible for the vigorous assault on poverty during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries...