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...Religion. In Rome, a happier prophecy also came true: Vespasian became Emperor. As a protégé of the court, Josephus was able to devote the rest of his life to his massive histories: The Jewish War, and Antiquities, a 20- volume history of the Jews. While fulsomely admiring his adopted country, Josephus sought to explain and vindicate the Jewish people, to communicate the unique sense of theocracy (he is credited with coining the word) that was to pervade the Christian world. He wrote: "The whole nation is fashioned for religion. Practices which other nations call mysteries and sacred...
...enterprising and inquisitive art expert from Christie's auction house, David Carritt, 37, a protégé of the late Bernard Berenson, followed up a report that a French international banker, who owned a London town house around the turn of the century, had bought and installed five Tiepolos, which, he believes, once graced the Paris home of Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild. "I'm always looking for Tiepolos," says Carritt, who visited the house, owned since 1923 by Egypt and now the United Arab Republic's embassy. In a twinkling, Carritt called the overhead oils authentic...
Suslov's knifework lasted some four hours, but the unkindest cut of all was yet to come. Khrushchev's youngest protégé on the Presidium, Dmitry Polyansky, rose to denounce Nikita's agricultural fiascoes with sharply pointed statistics...
...been traditionally the key to Soviet power: the secretaryship of the Communist Party. Kosygin, a trained economist and business-minded technician who has had little political experience but may just be the smarter and deeper of the two, inherited the premiership. Both had been known as Khrushchev's prot...
JENNINGS TOFEL-Zabriskie. 36 East 61st. The first exhibition since the death in 1959 of this protégé of Alfred Stieglitz takes a long look at the last 20 years of his career. During that time Tofel did not change much: he is always expressionist, always crowds his canvases with strange, misshapen humans and animals. His palette brightens, but the symbolism remains cloudy. Through March...