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Having released his special demons of Caesarism, De Riencourt in a kind of guilty afterthought tries to pour the jinn back into the bottle and mix with the tonic of a higher historical synthesis: he lamely concludes that there are "ways and means of reviving our moribund Culture while retaining...
It is no accident then that we view our goods anthropomorphically, or that the removed, austere, vengeful Apollo, and the terrible tragic grandeur of Christ Crucified both find their expression in the nude form. The nude has the strength of both immediacy and severe truth--man as he really is...
The first issue of "Synthesis," a journal published by the Student's Council of the Graduate School of Design was published yesterday.
Thesis: the Radcliffe Freshman Chorus singing a cappella. Antithesis: several local instrumentalists playing baroque sonatas. Synthesis: the Chorus and a small instrumental group joining for parts of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater.
In contrast, The Conquistadors, by French Scholar Jean Descola, lacks the firsthand touch of that truly wonderful story; it is a brilliant work of historical synthesis, written with an eloquence that is Spanish and an aphoristic bite that is French. For part of the way the two books travel together...