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...date as late as the 18th century. "I simply buy the most beautiful things I can find," he says. The miniatures come from medieval books of songs, proverbs and prayers, or from the great Books of Hours. Though most portray religious subjects, there are scenes from the history of Troy and the works of Aristotle, even a scene showing Caesar receiving a German ambassador. Since the miniatures were never exposed to light as much as ordinary paintings, they furnish an especially vivid record of the medieval mind. One can almost hear the dogs yelping in the boar hunt of Louis...
...still a trustee of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum. The baroness is also a painter, and between 1955 and 1959 she donated eight of her own paintings to three schools, Arizona State College, Milwaukee-Downer College and Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y. The market value claimed on her tax returns ranged from $1,000 for an abstraction called Scherzo to $30,000 each for the three parts of her triptych Con Moto, Andante and Allegro. Last month, Internal Revenue challenged the evaluations in the U.S. Tax Court in Manhattan...
...though he is one of Detroit's most famous citizens, he is also a Nisei and therefore still partly an outsider. His real estate broker told him. "I can't get you a house in either suburb. Yama. But I know of a fine old farmhouse in Troy which you can have." Yamasaki liked the 136-yearold farmhouse, and he lives there to this day with his mother and his blonde second wife Peggy (he and Teruko were divorced two years ago). He has landscaped his 15 acres, surrounded his house with Japanese-style gardens and patios...
According to G. Ernest Wright of Harvard, who directed the archaeological team, this accurate historical record can be critically compared with the ancient oral traditions. The achievement is similar to the light shed on the Greek legend of Troy by Schliemann's excavations in Asia Minor...
Electra. Wide-ruling Agamemnon, home from Troy triumphant, straightway is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. who usurps dominion of Mycenae. Agamemnon's son Orestes is spirited to safety by his tutor, but the dead king's daughter Electra is held in duress till she comes of age, and then is wed precautiously to a poor farmer-the sons of such a man, Aegisthus reasons, cannot hope to occupy a throne, and therefore would not dare to kill him. Vain precautions. Orestes returns secretly and at Electra's furious insistence, slaughters the usurper...