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… singeing the beards of his disciples, caused the painter to die of grief. His epitaph, written by Professor Clod … the great novelistic authors of the modern period, whose accomplishment has sometimes been trivialized by those who … smile” in Leonardo, “sinister,” as Pater says, points back to Vasari’s incipiently Faustian artist, who had …

… an examination of their aftermaths reveals several points on which a cautious comparison may yield insights for … some of the “successes” counted in the polls. Studies reveal that numerous factors contribute to postwar … In 1980 47 percent of Americans strongly agreed and another 26 percent somewhat agreed with the statement: “The trouble …

… Their good friend, who had been ill for some time, died late one night, and they were notified early the next … house an eerie white. For a brief while they lay in bed complaining about the weather, then got up and dressed in … out for each other, they clung together and began to weep. 326-333 By Jane McDill Anderson …

… Stravinsky albums, Chinese horses and Ray Charles, soldiers dead in the Southeast Asian mud, corteges on … that spring in the river bottomland, the cream-colored honeycombs glowing up when you were right above them. Polly was … drew careful slanted shapes with spaces and exclamation points to mark shifts in the story. She knew she should …

… Columbus, By Samuel Eliot Morison. Little, Brown and Company. $3.50. Those who some years back learned in school … 12, 1492, when searching for a western route to the Indies.” To pass up the book on this assurance, however, would … distance to the Orient. The savants who rejected his proposals on more than one occasion (the round­ness of the world …