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METROPOLITAN-Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. Most of its galleries are closed for air-conditioning installation, so the Met is playing it cool with a long-term exhibition of Fabergé bric-a-brac. The jeweled Easter eggs, precious parasol handles and assorted semiprecious whatnots would look more at home in Tiffany's down the street. Also on view: the Met's permanent collection of European and U.S. paintings...
...This precious caricature was never really accurate. But it was never more misleading than when applied to John Keats, the one Romantic poet whose outward life it seemed most to resemble. Keats's life was a series of buffetings by a fate cruel enough to suit the most sentimental of Victorian preconceptions. He lost his father at eight, his mother at 14, his brother Tom at 23, and died himself of tuberculosis at 25. His appointed guardian, Tea Merchant George Abbey, hated him. Abbey apprenticed him to a doctor, tried to keep him from seeing his younger sister Fanny...
...does writing have an end? What is the warning sign? A trembling of the hand? I used to think that with the completed book you raise the joyful cry 'Finished!' You clap your hands, only to find pouring from them grains of sand you believed to be precious. That is the moment when, in the figures inscribed by those grains of sand, you may read the words 'To be continued...
...sells more inertial-guidance systems than anyone else, and its Sweden-based Svenska is the world's second largest maker of cash registers. Across the world, Litton men are mapping underground volcanic activity in Hawaii, searching for oil beneath the North Sea, scouring the jungles of Surinam for precious minerals...
...Episcopal minister assumed the pulpit in Memorial Church yesterday morning with a pledge "to explore and develop the long and continuous tradition of free worship which is the precious heritage of this place...