Mystery Cults in Ancient Greece and Rome,” by Damien Stone.

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Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum,” at the Frick Collection.

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I met the critic Dwight Macdonald (1906–82) when I was a young instructor at La Salle College in the early 1960s. We were introduced by a former teacher and lifelong friend, the historian John Lukacs, ...

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