Word: datedness
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Though it was not his intention, Johnson's calculations struck directly at N.Y.U.'s great rival, Columbia University. There, library officials had already set up a lively exhibition commemorating the 2,000th year of Julius Caesar's death. Now, it seemed, Columbia was commemorating a year too...
Later investigation thoroughly refuted these charges. De Vaux and Harding first thought the Qumran ruins were simply an insignificant Roman fortress. Further digging disclosed, however, remains of a "monastery", complete with a fifteen-foot tower which was still standing. Its walls were forty feet square and five feet thick. The...
ALTHOUGH the baffling, dedicated, often tormented painters of the late 19th century have inspired one Hollywood opus after another, the celluloid vision has proved no more revealing than the dated contemporary photographs. This month at Chicago's Art Institute, a traveling exhibition of Toulouse-Lautrec will offer a fresh...
The rules for instrument (IFR) and visual (VFR) flight which were good enough when planes were few and slow, are dangerously dated with thousands of speedy private, commercial and military craft crowding the airways. And the situation will get worse with jets.
Though in his day Delacroix won even Goethe's praise for his Faust drawings, much of his theatrical subject matter-triumphant crusaders, fierce sultans and pashas, sultry harem girls-today seems mawkish. Probably only his scenes drawn on the barricades during the 1830 revolution still hold men's...