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Though Americans have reason to be grateful to the Maoris for entrusting their sacred treasures to the care of foreign museums, the tribesmen themselves take scarcely any credit for the marvels wrought by their artists over a thousand years. One traditional Maori poet declares, "The authority, the awe, the divine and the artistry,/ I inherited these gifts from my ancestors.'' -By Patricia Blake
...little. Three backs are turned: a pink cascading dress on the left, a lady and a gentleman scrutinizing a painting on the right. The sense of absorption-of a painter spying on people looking at art -is extreme; and so is the feeling for material substance, quiet, glowing, meticulously wrought. On the far left, a portrait of Louis XIV is being lowered into its crate for shipment. This refers to the name of Gersaint's shop, Au Grand Monarque, but also to the death and burial of the Sun King himself. The shop sign is at once an elegy...
...nearby marketplace, vendors offered an abundance of jungle fruits and rare herbs and skillfully wrought creations of silver and gold. "The magnificence, the strange and marvelous things of this great city are so remarkable as not to be believed," Hernando Cortés wrote back to the imperial court of Charles V. "We were seeing things," Bernal Díaz del Castillo recalled in his memoir of the Spanish invasion, "that had never been heard of or seen before, nor even dreamed about...
Frustrated by the inconveniences wrought by their House renovations, a group of Dunster House seniors recently spearheaded a joke campaign to "put the mortar back in mortarboard." They hung a sign-up sheet in their dining hall asking how many classmates would be willing to go through Commencemment exercises sporting hardhats. About 40 volunteered. If you had to pick one symbol for the Class of 1984's four-year stay in Cambridge, it would have to be a hard...
...WILL [govern] ON THE BASIS OF TRADITIONAL DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES, WHICH HE HAS CONVERTED INTO SPECIFIC IDEAS THAT ARE TRADITIONAL AND DEMOCRATIC." Cuomo's vision shines brightly because it is so forthright--government can and should help those who can't help themselves--and so innocent, unsullied by the ravages wrought by deficit spending and the gimmicky neo-liberalism developed by egg-heads in response to President Reagan. Cuomo recites a manifesto only a slight bit rhetorically different from that uttered...