February 12, 2011
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So Daniel Mendelsohn wrote a scathing review of the tv series Mad Men and someone didn’t like it … an excerpt from an account at the New York Times (which has all the relevant links, of course): Mr. Peck is perhaps better known for not liking things than liking them (see, e.g., his collection of…
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Catching up on a pile of backlogged email, I was gobsmacked to read this excerpt from an upcoming auction announcement … from Auction Central News (inter alia): The most extraordinary of all items in the sale is the actual mummified hand of Cleopatra, to be auctioned with documentation. The preserved, mummified left hand has an…
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From the Irish Times: Former Trinity vice-provost and emeritus professor John Victor Luce died yesterday following a short illness at the age of 90. Better known as JV Luce, he was a senior fellow of Trinity and was the 62nd vice-provost of the university from 1987 to 1989, a position which his father, Arthur Aston…
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