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Yesterday morning, a young woman, a student of art history, joined us to see the Cavallini frescoes at Santa Cecilia. She had never seen them before and began at once to point out inequalities and different hands that must have taken part in the execution. The fault of teaching art...
He acknowledges at last that he was present at the execution, and he is denounced by the Christians of the city for renouncing his faith in order to survive. He adopts the role of public penitent and stands at the altar of his church glorifying the twelve martyrs, whom, he...
Johnson has not neglected entirely two difficult problems before cities today: a shortage of housing and the sad fact (Jane Jacobs notwithstanding) that some housing is so blighted that rehabilitation is impossible. Unfortunately his proposal for 50,000 new units in addition to those undergoing rehabilitation is inadequate to cope...
The last concert in Cambridge to match this one in quality of intent and execution was given last spring; the program of music by Pierre Boulez. Like that one, this was sponsored by the Department of Music, one suspects, gratefully, under the goad of Leon Kirchner. There is no telling...
McKenna's brother and girl friend provide the crisis by springing him from prison with a fantastic plot a few hours before the execution. The plot now changes from a moral drama to a horror story. The over-zealous prosecutor turns into a murderous ghoul ("I think the execution of...