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...uncovered. The date. 1655, placed the painting in the period when family misfortunes and declining popularity had led Rembrandt to retire to his house in Amsterdam's Jewish quarter. There he painted what he loved most: his companion and mistress Hendrickje, his ailing son Titus, and his magnificently wrought Biblical scenes. One problem still baffled experts. The three-quarter-length figure, dressed in the heavy folds of a reddish brown cloak, is a young man of 18 or 20. Titus in 1655 was only a lad of 15. The experts' explanation: Rembrandt often used his models only...
...whale steak in season, all true smorgasborders should visit Ola's Norweigian restaurant at 16 Carver Street. Those who don't like whale meat, or can't remember how they roasted reindeer or potted ptarmigan in the old country might still enjoy some varied tastes. Just pass through the wrought-iron gates into the restaurant...
...centuries earlier, they had borrowed the essentials of their nationhood from Asia-the writing and art of China, the advanced mores of Korea, the ethic of Confucius, the religion of Buddha -the Japanese in the Meiji period borrowed the makings of a second way of life, and wrought history's most remarkable transformation. The cocoon of medieval primitivism was broken and Japan emerged a modern world power-the first and only industrial nation of the Orient...
...delicately wrought signpost to the spiritual life is a small book, apparently written some time in the mid-19th century and published in Russian under the title: Candid Narratives of a Pilgrim to His Spiritual Father. Its author is unknown, its exact date uncertain. It made its first appearance in manuscript form in the hands of one of the famed monks of Mount Athos. The abbot of St. Michael's Monastery at Kazan, Russia, discovered it, copied it, and it appeared in 1884. Though one of the classics of Russian Orthodoxy that sounds a note often heard in Tolstoy...
Pusey paid tribute to Radcliffe's achievement in the field of women's education, and offered "official recognition of what those on the other side of the Yard have wrought without excessive help from us on this side...