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That is the plot of one of the great curios in all American opera. Treemonisha was composed by the ragtime genius Scott Joplin. Completed in 1911, it was never staged during his lifetime, nor at all until 1972, early on in the current Joplin revival. Last May it was presented...
In a symbolic sense they have been frozen still more by Western art history, which has tended to interest itself in African art only to the extent that it was cannibalized by Picasso, Braque, Brancusi and other European artists, becoming a font of style for cubism and expressionism. This helped...
There is even a trace of institutional chauvinism among the numerous Kennedy curios: a black wooden chair that was in the White House during the Kennedy presidency bears the wry inscription "The only proper seat of government is the Harvard chair."
5. The area is close to the waterfront, and can help stimulate other progressive steps for the renewal and enhancement of this significant area. Since the late President loved the sea, it seems an appropriate location for many of his artifacts and curios.
California, naturally, has produced the most spectacular bazaar of them all: an enormous affair conducted in the Rose Bowl, where bargain hunting now rivals football as the favorite sport. Every second Sunday in the month, year round, some 35,000 customers queue up outside the Bowl to pay the 50...