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...mostly thousands of fragments, making reconstruction extremely difficult and interpretations open to dispute. Scholars on the official committee worked on these remaining texts at a painfully slow pace while granting others severely limited access. By the late 1980s, scholarly temperatures reached the boiling point. One recent book claims Roman Catholic priests beholden to the Vatican conspired to cover up the texts lest they shake the doctrinal foundations of the mother church. The true reasons are more mundane: too few scholars monopolizing too much material, team members' personal problems, shortage of money, political and academic intrigue and plain incompetence...
Waugh could also be extraordinarily generous, both in praise for writers he admired -- most notably, Graham Greene -- and in discreet gifts to agencies of the Roman Catholic Church, which he had entered in 1930. In the end, though, he felt abandoned even by Catholicism. Pained by the populist liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council, Waugh discreetly asked a clerical friend, the Jesuit writer Martin D'Arcy, whether he might be excused from attending Sunday Mass. The answer was a firm but sympathetic...
Another addition to the Core is Literature and Arts B-22, "Ancient Drawing and Painting," taught by Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor Emily D. T. Vermeule. The fall course will study Greek and Roman painting...
Another addition to the Core is Literature and Arts B-22, "Ancient Drawing and Painting," taught by Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor Emily D. T. Vermeule. The fall course will study Greek and Roman painting...
...commonly referred to by his first name is now likely to be remembered in part, as Chaplin is, as a despoiler of young women. Manhattan divorce attorney Raoul Felder, alluding to another disgraced director, says of Allen, "He can put his career in an envelope and mail it to Roman Polanski...