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...wars start? The thousands of books and articles on the Widener shelves are a stark testament to the frustrations of generations of scholars working away at the origins of this or that...
...write 'I love you,' " says Lloyd Webber. "It's always 'I love you, but . . .' "). Their first show, The Likes of Us, about a Victorian philanthropist named Dr. Bernardo, was never commercially produced; "square and dated," explained Rice. For their next try they took some really dated material: the Old Testament...
...Testament injunction against graven images did not apply to the work of Jewish artisans of the Middle Ages. Fortunately so, as illustrated in The Hebrew Bible in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, by Gabrielle Sed-Rajna (Rizzoli; 173 pages; $85). Sed-Rajna, director of the Hebraic department of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes in Paris, has included , painted manuscripts from the 13th through the 15th centuries. Biblical characters depicted in medieval dress recall the stories of Genesis, Abraham and Jacob, David and Goliath, Daniel in the lions' den and The Song of Solomon. The undeniable vigor...
T.M.U. succeeds in paring away all but the essentials to come up with an education that is truly useful. In comparative literature, you learn how to make vital literary connections. "In the beginning there was the Old Testament, which is just like the New Testament because both of them are part of the Bible, which was written in verse just like the Odyssey, which is exactly the same as Ulysses, which is real long just like Gone with the Wind...
Gephardt's career in Washington is a testament to his creed that "good policy is good politics." It began slowly. After the Congressman won a second term, his staff convened at his suburban Washington home for what they presumed would be a victory party. They discovered instead that Gephardt had called the session to lament the lack of new laws with his name on them, an astonishing attitude for someone who had spent only two years in the House. Eventually he focused on two issues: the Bradley-Gephardt tax-reform bill and the Gephardt trade amendment. In each instance, Gephardt...