Word: texts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past, Taylor noted, students have tended to spend too much time on the general beginning essay, at the expense of the textual criticism which followed. Now, a two hour textual criticism will make up the entire first day program. One hour will be devoted to a history text and the other to a literary test...
...NATO nations all chanted the same defiant cry: we will not surrender Berlin. But when it came to concrete proposals on just how to counter the Russian threat to Berlin, the NATO war cry turned out to be subject to as many shades of interpretation as a Biblical text...
...death. In Doctor Zhivago, one of this century's remarkable novels, Boris Pasternak carried that theme to its climax. With this embattled book he restored to the world the image of what Russia has long been, despite violence, madness and corruption -a preacher to the nations on the text of death and resurrection...
MOSAICS OF ST. MARK'S (New York Graphic; $22.50) also suffers from a certain stuffiness of text, but its 44 big color plates are little short of perfection, do much to bring the Byzantine marvels of St. Mark's Cathedral down from the shadowy vaulted ceilings into the reader's lap. Many a tourist has stopped in Venice and visited its cathedral without ever dreaming that he stood at the heart of one of Byzantium's finest offshoots. This book should send him back once more...
FLEMISH PAINTING FROM BOSCH TO RUBENS (Skira; $25) has 112 eye-filling color reproductions, mostly good. Text contains a maximum of mere information and a minimum of thought, as is all too common with art books. The gigantic hero, overshadowing both Bosch and Rubens should of course be Bruegel, but he occupies only 22 pages out of 202, and his essential mysticism is barely hinted. But the pictures show the Bruegel, as Pliny said of Apelles, "painted many things that are really unpaintable...