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UNDERLINING the nation's ever increasing interest in Asia, three museums this week opened major shows of Asian art. In Washington the National Gallery staged an exhibition of haniwa (prehistoric ceramic tomb sculptures) lent by Japan. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts showed the Buddhist sculptures of Gandhara, on loan from Pakistan. Both shows were organized by Manhattan's Asia Society, which was formed in 1957 with the aim of cross-pollinating Eastern and Western cultures...
North by Northwest. Superb Hitchcock-and-bullets, with an enduringly spotless Gary Grant and a refreshingly unzippered Eva Marie Saint, involving foreign agents who are brash enough to think they can fill Grant's tomb...
...small obelisk monument to Americans who were killed in Greece's 1821-29 war for independence from the Ottoman Empire. At the Parliament Building, the royal guard of evzones, in their familiar red fezzes and frilled skirts, were drawn up to watch Ike lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier...
...Tomb for Hiroshima. Tange decided in his teens to become an architect after he had seen pictures of Le Corbusier's rejected plan for the League of Nations. He attended Tokyo's Imperial University, later worked with Architect Kunio Maekawa, a former Le Corbusier pupil. Tange's big chance came after the war, when in 1949 he won the national competition to build the Hiroshima Peace Center on the site where the first A-bomb was dropped. His solution for the museum, library and auditorium was typically Corbusian: a series of reinforced concrete structures set on stilts...
...simultaneously in Europe and the U.S. in five languages and six editions. Scholars have been waiting for it since 1946, when word went through the learned world that jars containing 13 leather-bound papyrus manuscripts-part of a 4th century Gnostic library-had been found in a sand-covered tomb in Upper Egypt. Laymen had been waiting for the book since last spring, when Swiss Theologian Oscar Cullmann, in a lecture at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, quoted some tantalizing excerpts from the "sayings of Jesus" contained in one of the volumes, which Cullmann compared in importance with...