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...Hours of Et'ienne Chevalier, from the Musee Conde, Chantilly. Preface by Charles Sterling. 128 pages. Brazil ler. $17.50. Facsimile re-creation of a Book of Hours painted for an arriviste French nobleman about 1450. The artist, Jean Fouquet, was one of the 15th century's finest miniaturists, whose handling of celestial blues and golds as well as the soft pastels of spring landscape made him as much at home depicting heaven as earth. Fouquet's Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Faithful includes squadrons of foiled devils in flight and cloaked elders in prayer. Beyond...
...have no business on a stage with the Grateful Dead. They are a very neat group within the limitations of tight, well-rehearsed material. But I would be reticent about endeavoring to present any of my own compositions as back up at a Bob Dylan concert. Unfortunately for Marmaduke et al. (Garcia was sorely missed on pedal steel), when they put their musical cards on the table, they simply did not have the hand. Only once did they attempt to break out of the dreary cowboy framework that shackled their entire presentation, and then they found themselves unable to extend...
Douglas acted in the case of Balley et al v. Tarr, filed last week in Los Angeles by the Southern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The order stays all inductions until the case can be tried in Federal District Court, A hearing has been set for January...
...down last week in Newark concerned an affair as real as the one that inspired the film. It was an international smuggling scandal that, U.S. authorities allege, reaches into the staff of the French consulate in New York and to a high official of the SDECE (Service de Documentation et de Contre-Espionnage), the French equivalent...
...people and pronouns in English the masculine is the unmarked and hence is used as a neutral or unspecified term. This reflects the ancient pattern of the Indo-European languages, seen also, for example, in French: hommes et femmes heureux "happy men and women" (with the masculine form of the adjective). Thus we say: All men are created equal. Each student shall discuss his paper topic with his section man. Madam Chairman, I object...