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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...