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...masters. The process may also occur through a kind of rebirth-a deliberate revival of an ancient state or civilization in a new form, often but not always accompanied by revolutionary war. Modern Greece fought for its independence from the Ottoman empire partly in the name of its ancient, glorious incarnation, and modern Germany struggled for national unity remembering its identity under the Holy Roman Empire...
...answer, Andover is staging an extra-special teaching exhibit, consisting of 395 items from 174 donors. The show is a glorious potpourri ranging from ancient Iranian pots to pop art, and includes a sample of artists from Zurbarán and Veronese to Picasso and Pollock. What the items have in common is their owners: they are all Andover graduates. Last week the collectors collected themselves together at Andover to congratulate Hayes...
...chance, for wouldn't a total defeat inflicted on the Egyptians mean a welcome end to her troubles? Why is she hesitating? Or will she this time create still another myth-that the Soviet Union is going to send down the Red Army to fight her glorious forces? O David, where is thy sling...
...fashioned. A Countess From Hong Kong is modern cinema, though not, perhaps, what we have come to expect from modern cinema. Take the new Chaplin film on its own terms; contrary to all those patronizing critics, the old man hasn't really lost his touch, and Countess is a glorious romance...
...rings as flat as a shofar blown by a gentile. Listening to a radio report on the Normandy invasion, Reuven thinks miserably of the "broken vehicles and dead soldiers" on the beaches. No base ball-playing American kid-Jewish or otherwise-thought for a moment of bodies on that glorious day; he imagined brave jut-jawed soldiers in spotless khakis charging through the cringing, craven "Nazzy" lines...