Word: vinci
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...mathematician read my work," Leonardo da Vinci once wrote-a warning that applies to the 50 pages of his drawings, mostly "technical," on view at the National Museum of History and Technology in Washington, D.C., this month. It is the largest group of Leonardos yet seen in the U.S., or indeed anywhere in the world since the miraculous show of the royal family's Leonardo collection at Buckingham Palace in 1969. It accompanies an ambitious publishing project-the McGraw-Hill five-volume facsimile of the so-called Madrid codices: two recently discovered Leonardo notebooks, edited and translated...
...Joseph Vinci North Dartmouth, Mass...
...discovery of this massive array of facts makes Blotner's failure to approach the mind of the writer all the more inexcusable. He could have, as Edel suggests, used psychology, like Freud's Leonardo da Vinci, Erikson's Young Man Luther, and David Donald's Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War. Henry James was suited to Edel's psychological approach--in fact demanded such treatment--because, as the editor of the James letters said, "his life was no mere succession of facts such as could be recorded and compiled by another hand; it was a densely knit...
Most of the attacks by Arab terrorists on jetliners or airports, however savage and irrational, have been interpreted as demonstrations of anger and frustration by Palestinian refugees who were trying to draw attention to the plight of their people. But the massacre at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport two weeks ago, as well as other recent hijackings, seemed to have a special motivation. Not only were the casualties particularly high-32 died-but the attack came almost on the eve of the Geneva peace conference. The Rome attack was apparently the work of a Black September splinter group...
...departure lounge of Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport, Robert Suit, 60, travel editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, was waiting with friends to board a plane for New York when they saw a commotion farther down the concourse. "Must be some movie star," one of them remarked. After some nuns hurried past them, another quipped, "No, maybe it's the Pope...