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...record not only of what Toulouse-Lautrec saw as he grappled with the living instant, but how he saw it, set down with a warmth and power that no camera eye can match. Nowhere is this more evident than in his pastel portrait of Van Gogh, sketched at a café table...
Gauguin, selling his paintings to pay the passage, turned his proud-beaked head toward Tahiti and the unknown future. Toulouse-Lautrec, grown famous for his paintings peopled with characters from Parisian cafés and brothels, remained a staunch defender of Van Gogh until his own death eleven years later...
Some foreign political leaders have also returned to action after heart attacks. Pakistan's Prime Minister Chaudhri Mohamad Ali* had a heart attack in 1952, when he was Finance Minister. Brazil's João Café Filho has recovered from his November heart attack at least to the point of demanding- without success-that he be given back his job as President. Canada's M. J. Coldwell, leader of the CCF (Socialist Party), was a heart patient three years ago, stayed in politics, and just last week completed a tour in which he made 50 speeches...
...crisis began to simmer a fortnight ago, involving Lott's right to discipline an outspoken golpista army colonel. This dispute turned into a decisive test of strength between Lott and the golpe faction. In the midst of the crisis, a heart attack flattened President Joāo Café Filho, and the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Carlos Luz, took over as Brazil's Acting President. Luz, suspected of being a golpista, ruled against War Minster Lott in the affair of the loose-lipped colonel. Lott resigned, and Luz promptly named a golpista general as War Minister...
Philosophy was George Santayana's shop, and after hours he liked to linger on at the café tables of the mind, sipping moments of beauty and watching the passing show with its persistent drama and recurring vanities. Even if building towers of systematic truths had been congenial to him, Santayana banished it with his basic premise, i.e., "Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything." His letters, edited by his longtime confidant and disciple, Philosopher Daniel Cory, cover 66 years, from the year of his Harvard graduation through the teaching days and European travels to the comfortable room...