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...Bert R. Vaux, a lecturer on linguistics, explains the reasons for the high number of summa awards in his department. A qualifying thesis must be "highly original work to the quality level of a [master's] thesis, and it also has to be well-done technically speaking," he says...

Author: By Kathryn R. Markham, | Title: * WITH * HIGHEST HONORS | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...SECTION OF LETTERS DEALING WITH the French nuclear tests included one that was mistakenly attributed to Nicolas Nolf of Grenoble, France [LETTERS, Oct. 9]. It was written by Sylvie Moscatelli of Vaux sur Mer, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 30, 1995 | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

Nonetheless, Scully does not tread wearily through the book's itinerary (ancient Greek and Roman architecture, the Gothic cathedrals of France, Renaissance Florence, Versailles, Vaux-le-Vicomte, etc...); rather, he takes to it with abandon, incorporating a sensitivity to the literary and cultural context that surrounds the buildings he studies, and using a sparkling rhetorical style that enlivens a subject liable to be wearied by either dense technical jargon or the purple prose of art speak...

Author: By John D. Shepherd, | Title: Visions of Paradise Found | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

...fired with new dignity, purpose and activism. Black artists in particular took on the role of interpreters of their culture and made northern Manhattan a Paris for the "New Negro." Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America (Abrams; 200 pages; $35) documents this flowering, from the Paris-trained sculptor Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, who built her studio with her own hands, through Painter William H. Johnson, who renounced his academic style for a self-enforced primitivism, to James Van Der Zee, whose camera was witness to Harlem weddings, funerals and roaring good times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Shelf of Holiday Treats and Treasures | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...buyers have been mainly professional, Le Vaux said. "A lot of high-tech people coming to the Boston area will find their way to Cambridge," she said...

Author: By Mei-lin KWAN Gett, | Title: Cambridge Market Gets Mondo Condo In Wake of Tax Reform, Appreciation | 10/7/1986 | See Source »

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