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...latest musical endeavor, an album of holiday standards entitled “Christmas in the Heart,” just as puzzling as it is entertaining. Nostalgic descriptions, like on “Silver Bells,” of how Christmas “shoppers rush home with their treasures?? may seem a bit incongruous coming from the same singer who penned a batch of angry lyrics railing against the system. Luckily, Dylan hasn’t suddenly decided to sell out for some quick Christmas cash—sales from the album will go towards feeding families...
...heritage. Even before the Mongol invasions of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, or the Japanese invasions of the later years, Korea had already witnessed much war with its Chinese neighbors to the north . This history of conflict had an unfortunate and devastating effect on the preservation of important national treasures??including many secrets of the legendary Korean celadon pottery, and roughly 80 percent of the Buddhist paintings produced during the Golden Age of Korea . As such, because of its unique institutional affiliation, the Early Korea Project is the academic community’s best bet for re-discovering...
...second gallery that houses fish and flowers illustrates this strength. A floral Josef Hoffman design from roughly 1920 echoes both a Chinese vase from the eleventh-century Northern Song Dynasty and a twelfth-century plaque from Cologne—one of the show’s tiny treasures??while the congruence of fish forms in ancient Greek and Egyptian bowls plays well off the Hokusai print beneath. The objects are well displayed throughout. Many, such as the ubiquitous lead-glazed plates and platters, hang on the walls with the two-dimensional paper works, while others can be found...
...Boston have made its natives entirely unprepared for such a trailblazing addition. The lonely quadling waiting outside Johnston Gate for a Harvard shuttle is already confused by the presence of public buses run by the city, blue-and-red vehicles destined for Wellesley and its “treasures??—even Harvard-run shuttles going to far-off places like the Business School instead of comfortable Cabot or Currier House. These things should not be confusing. But to those living in a land where a creaky set of buses can pass for a Silver subway line...
...HSDF had agreed to waive the requirement if the University Library used the ground floor as a public gallery displaying the “rare books, maps and other treasures?? in its collection...