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Last week Aubusson came to Paris in an exhibition of French tapestries which made both critics and public happy. Said Figaro: "One moves from delight to delight." The biggest and best delight in the show was also the oldest: a 14th Century illustration of the Apocalypse-measuring 35 by 250 feet-from the Angers cathedral. The newest and most surprising were from Jean Lurçat's Aubusson atelier. Despite their secular emphasis on roosters, nudes and flaming suns, they, too, looked somehow medieval (see cuts...
...delight, it seems, in trying to hold the South up in ridicule. . . . It's rather a pity that the whole country at this sad hour doesn't have more of the sound and conservative fundamentals of Southerners. And, incidentally, I challenge you to find anywhere a finer or more beautiful city than the southern city of Memphis...
...members of the Maniwaki* (pop. about 2,000) Rotary Club, the weekly luncheons, speeches and songs were a special delight. Most Maniwakians, sons of rugged, cheery, gregarious lumberjacks, liked nothing better than these get-togethers...
...bigger cities, Ehrenburg had press conferences. As often as not, Ehrenburg asked most of the questions. His practiced polemics were a delight to polemical Sam Grafton but something of a puzzle to Southerners. His reply to questions about Soviet aggression was typical: "That is like asking a wounded soldier who has come home whom he intends to attack next." Initially the answer created sympathy; on second thought it seemed suspiciously oblique; on further thought it seemed to be no answer...
Philip Neri, whose delight it was "to play the fool for the love of God," managed to be both saint and humorist-to what degree is made plain in Theodore Maynard's new biography, Mystic in Motley (Bruce Publishing Co., $2.50). Biographer Maynard contributes nothing essentially new, is content in his popularization merely to introduce to modern Americans cue of the most unexpected personalities in Catholic hagiology...