Several of our veteran museums are doing by undoing: loosening up the rigid values and temple-of-art models that shaped them, and replacing these with a new people's museum model, unsacred in atmosphere, fluid in values, with complicated answers to the question of what museums are.

Her deep black hair, pulled back from her forehead and gathered in a knot behind her head, gave full rein to her rounded, madonnalike face.

a stroke of genius    a master stroke of policy

Richard has compounded with some Italians to paint a mural of his triumph … The time may come when the scene is bitter in his eyes, but he should paint it anyway. He should not give backword to the Italians — it is how they get their living.