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Charles Townley, one of Britain's first great collectors of antiquities, was born in Lancashire in 1737. A distaff descendant of the aristocratic Howard family, he was educated mostly in France a common path for a well-born Catholic Englishman. Elegant and intelligent, Townley was, according to an early biographical sketch, eagerly welcomed into Continental society, "from the dissipations of which it would be incorrect to say that he wholly escaped." As a young adult, he returned to England and installed himself at the family estate, having come into a lavish inheritance. But before long he set off for Italy, in what would be the first of three visits. In a dozen years, he amassed more than two hundred ancient sculptures, along with other objects.
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SUBJECT AND OBJECT
What happened when Lillian Ross profiled Ernest Hemingway.
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ROYAL FLUSH
The fall of red.
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Roz Chast on George Booth's Cartoons
There's almost nothing I like more than a laughing fit. It is a non-brain response, like an orgasm or a sneeze.
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CHUKA
I have always longed to be known, truly known, by another human being. Sometimes we live for years with yearnings that we cannot name.
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Rachel Aviv on Janet Malcolm's "Trouble in the Archives"
As Janet Malcolm worked on \"Trouble in the Archives,\" a two-part piece about prominent psychoanalysts who disagreed about Freud, she began a correspondence with Kurt Eissler, the head of the Sigmund Freud Archives.
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PERSONAL HISTORY - A VISIT TO MADAM BEDI
I was estranged from my own mother, so a friend tried to lend me his.
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AMERICAN CHRONICLES - WAR OF WORDS
Editors, writers, and the making of a magazine.
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LIVE FROM NEW YORK
A new docuseries commemorates fifty years of \"Saturday Night Live.\"
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TANGLED WEB
An arachnophobe pays homage to the spider.
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TROUBLE IN PARADISE
Mike White's mischievous morality plays.