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...formidable seamless block of marble, smoothed and polished by generations of research. In fact, its surface is pocked with holes left by artists whose names, but very little of whose work, survive. Next to nothing is known about their lives and personalities. One of these was Michel ino da Besozzo, who came from Pavia and became the leading artist in early 15th century Milan. Nearly all Michelino's work is lost, but most of what remains was recently bought by New York's Pierpont Morgan Library. It consists of a tiny...
...intelligent. Leverett House, however, has changed the second rate Italian of the original into third rate English, and tried to present it as a sort of Gilbert and Sullivan with real music. The producers of the Leverett House Figaro seem to think that there is some theatrical merit to da Ponti's book; if the libretto indeed has any function, it is as a bad example. Even Neil Simon would blush at the plot, the story of a newlywed bridegroom trying to keep his lecherous employer from exercising droit de seigneur...
...shall be cloned, and why? Great scientists? Composers? Statesmen? When Geneticist Hermann J. Muller first broached the idea of sperm banks in Out of the Night (1935), he suggested Lenin as a sperm donor. In later editions, Lenin was conspicuously absent, replaced on Muller's list by Leonardo da Vinci, Descartes, Pasteur, Lincoln and Einstein. Society could well be as fickle?or worse?about cloning. It might create a caste of subservient workers, as in 1984, or a breed of super-warriors out of a "genetics race" between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. An even more hideous nightmare would...
...like Greenland, Labrador and finally the rest of North America. The familiar names are here: Leif Ericsson, discovering his mysterious Vinland around 1000 (Morison would like to believe it was Newfoundland); John Cabot, who sought a short cut to the Indies and ended up at Newfoundland in 1497; Giovanni da Verrazzano, the gentleman-explorer from Florence, who found offshore New York "a very pleasant place" to visit in 1524. There are unfamiliar names, too, like St. Brendan the Navigator, who in the 6th century took to sea, Morison speculates, in search of guaranteed chastity. After all, even a monastery...
...Lady Baird, who died in 1969, the gallery bought it for the equivalent in cash and tax relief of $1,920,000. It was the second highest price ever paid by the museum for a work of art, topped only by the $2,240,000 paid for Leonardo da Vinci's cartoon of the Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist and St. Anne...