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...guarantee that prospective ax murderers would pay heed. As Camus noted in his 1957 essay against capital punishment: "When pickpockets were punished by hanging in England, other thieves exercised their talents in the crowds surrounding the scaffold where their fellow was being hanged...
Workers will also be dismantling the scaffold throughout the month. Project Manager Roger Cayer predicted Friday that 80 percent of the staging would be down by next week...
...people to be put off, since they are often we, and the non-return of borrowed books is a custom as old as books themselves? ("Say, Gutenberg, what's this? And may I borrow it?") It is said that Charles I clutched a Bible as he mounted the scaffold. One shudders to imagine the last earthly question he heard...
...believes, singlehandedly created a new and inferior brand of fiction, "the pure novel." "When you think of James in the light of his predecessors," she writes, "you are suddenly conscious of what is not there: battles, riots, tempests, sunrises, the sewers of Paris, crime hunger, the plague, the scaffold, the clergy..." And most of all, she is convinced, ideas are gone. This is unconvincing in light of James' The Bostonians, a book packed with ideas...
WITH THE installation of Mary Miss's Mirror Way, the Fogg makes one of its all-too-infrequent ventures into the realm of contemporary art. The scaffold-like sculpture, constructed mostly of unfinished two-by-fours, is visually and conceptually anomalous to the neo-Renaissance interior of the museum courtyard...