Assay office   [from Wikipedia ]: “Institutions set up to assay (test the purity of) precious metals . . . . often done to protect consumers...

In his Six Memos for the Next Millennium (1985), Italo Calvino suggests that “melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness,” just as “...

According to Roland Barthes, virtually all music criticism “is only ever translated into the poorest of linguistic categories: the adjective...