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...that is true, Harvard should be grooming its junior Faculty members for tenured positions. Instead, Harvard is an export factory which supplies the nation's universities with many of their brightest young professors. As its budding scholars fall off the vine, Harvard goes on looking for "the best man available anywhere in the world" to fill each opening. That is why this year, for instance, the History Department failed to renew the contracts of three junior Faculty members and extended futile offers to distinguished European historians who replied that they like it where they...
...rare bright spot in the Indochina war has been the seemingly charmed survival of Angkor Wat, the fabulous, vine-covered imperial ruins that are revered today as the centerpiece of ancient Cambodian culture. Even after a Viet Cong regiment and several Khmer Rouge (Cambodian Communist) battalions slipped into the undefended city 20 months ago, Angkor Wat seemed protected by a United Nations convention preserving national monuments from wartime damage. A French-sponsored team that had been meticulously restoring the city's 800-year-old bas-relief galleries, statues and fluted balustrades was permitted by the Communists to continue...
...interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the moon and the first food eaten there were Communion elements. Just before I partook of the elements, I read the words which I had chosen to indicate our trust: John 15: 5, 'I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit...
...Erik Satie. Picasso went to Italy with the ophidian prodigy of the salons, Poet Jean Cocteau, to work on the sets and costumes. The motifs he encountered there inspired a series of stout, monumentalized "neoclassical" compositions (33-35). From then on, Picasso had a repertory for his Arcadia: the vine-wreathed gods and nymphs, the Minotaurs and classic busts, the disjecta membra of antiquity that he was to superbly transmute in the Vollard etchings of 1932 and return to, at intervals, for the rest of his life...
...force the conversation to include herself. She gossips about the neighbors, laments the marriage of the parish priest, tells of her failed attempt to break into the movies, in desperation reveals the details of two previous nervous breakdowns. She then goes through her old dance routine ("Hollywood and Vine" is the name of the song) to her husband's embarrassed outrage ("If you can't act civilized, go somewhere else"). The curtain falls as Celia so bs silently and the two men ignore her in talk of Mickey Mantle's bleeding legs...