Word: pleiades
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...dinner party given by the Association of American Publishers on the occasion of the last Moscow International Book Fair had been a literary highlight. It was 1979, and present at the plush Aragvi Restaurant in the Soviet capital was a pleiad of Russian writers and intellectuals, including Andrei Sakharov, the famed nuclear physicist, Dissident Author Anatoli Marchenko, Novelists Vasili Aksyonov and Vladimir Voinovich, and Critics Lev Kopelev and Raisa Orlova. But when the U.S. publishers got ready to give another such gala at the Moscow book fair this month, they knew the party would have to be smaller...
...became the nation's first professional sculptor. His Music is a graceful wooden girl who is as pleasing in her mute way as the muse she represents. When it came to women, Rush's 19th century successors were even more gallant than he. John Rogers' Lost Pleiad shows American sculpture at its most blatantly sentimental. Daniel French's Memory is a matronly nude shown brooding about some lost and precious moment, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' golden Diana is as winsome as the larger original that once graced the top of the old Madison Square Garden...
That the seventh Pleiad is indeed a variable star was reported last week by Harvard Observatory. The cluster is draped in a veil of diffuse nebulosity which may vary the brightness of certain stars by interposing streamers of varying thicknesses. Observations by Dr. William Alexander Calder disclosed that in a year the seventh Pleiad, now called Pleïone, had diminished by one-sixth of a magnitude in brightness. It cannot have been decreasing for very long at this rate, otherwise it would have been the brightest star in the sky less than a half century ago. But the fact...
...Ronsard and the Pleiad", Professor Morize, Harvard...
...grand medieval Cathedral of St. Rumold, was paid the homage of King, nobles, clergy and people. "The Ministers, headed by the Premier, M. Georges Theunis, the Governor of the Belgian Provinces, the members of the Diplomatic Corps, the Presidents and Vice Presidents of both Chambers, a pleiad of army generals, the Burgomasters of the chief cities of members of the Courts of Justice, the Rector of the University of Louvain, surrounded by a brilliant array of professors in caps and gowns-were all in the church when His Eminence, accompanied by his Suffragan Bishops and preceded by Monsignori, Cathedral Canons...
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