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...most notable examples was a prodigiously wealthy, vain and talented son of a French king, Jean, the Duke of Berry. Jean de Berry was born in 1340, and his patronage of artists changed the whole pattern of late medieval painting. "No patron of his time, and few before or after him, had a comparable effect on the arts," wrote Art Historian Millard Meiss. "Between 1380 and 1400 every great cycle of miniatures in France was commissioned by the Duke of Berry." A superb exhibition of 14th and 15th century French miniature painting, organized by Professor Meiss, is now on view...
Where the lie and falsehood theft and malevolence, selfishness, represent vain glory...
...rilled with undifferentiated nostalgia-for old values, old vitality, old civility. One searches in vain for the raffish Macondo of One Hundred Years of Solitude-modeled on the banana boom town of Aracataca, where the author was born. Macondophiles will at least learn some new bits and pieces about the place. The action starts with a note from Colonel Aureliano Buendia, the great revolutionary warrior who returns in Solitude, and the recluse Rebeca also makes an ectoplasmic appearance...
...Anglo-Rhodesian settlement fails, what will happen next? The British may well inform the United Nations that continuing the economic embargo of Rhodesia is no longer feasible, and may eventually try-probably in vain-to negotiate a new deal that will be acceptable to Rhodesia's 5,260,000 blacks as well as its 239,000 whites. In the meantime, the whites may well turn further to the right, perhaps toppling Ian Smith from office. They will deal with the African National Council as they have handled troublesome blacks in the past-by locking up the leaders...
...that the popular styles of the '20s, '30s and '40s have been recycled, why not some of the unpopular styles? Old Communists, for example. They really did make them better years ago. One of the best models was the brilliant, arrogant, vain, dogmatic, versatile Bolshevik, Lev Davidovich Bronstein. He called himself Trotsky, after a jailer at the czarist prison where he once served time. Trotsky was not without wit. When Nicholas II's troops came to break up a revolutionary meeting, the young radical ordered the commanding officer to sit down until recognized under Robert...