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...seriousness, we naturally recognize that the Russian Church’s claim to the Danilov Bells contains more than a measure of legitimacy. Nevertheless, there is something irresistibly comic in the Church’s implicit demand that because we can send men to Mars, we ought to be able to dismantle the Lowell House Bell Tower and send the bells back to Russia in time for the 700th anniversary of Saint Danilov’s death, three months from...
Speaking generally on politics at the ARCO Forum Friday night, comedian Jon Stewart coupled self-deprecating humor with wicked comic jabs to keep the audience rolling in the aisles...
...subjects of winning collections have varied widely in the past, ranging from East Asian cooking and artifacts relating to the Berlin subway system to comic books, children’s book illustrations, aviation dictionaries and lepidoptery...
...have to take it for granted that art patronage, as once understood, no longer exists in today's America. People collect art, buying it for their own enjoyment. But spending millions on an inflated comic by Roy Lichtenstein or outbidding a rival heavy hitter at an auction isn't public patronage. Such patronage suggests some intent of public edification, and in the U.S.--thanks to its barbarously ignorant politicians and its media-sodden public--that can no longer be done by high art, even if there was much high art to do it with. If the various bickering factions ever...
...plan made sense. Dartmouth’s sailing team is privately endowed. And if comic books and celebrity undergarments can fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars, why not the Dartmouth swim team...