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Jokes are not going to pull another thousand out of the air this time, however, and Withington's sure instinct tells him not to upstage the oxbow chest. It is a prize, one of the four or five best pieces to be offered. Yesterday at the preview here, dealers prowled...
Wilson, always combative, was made more so by whisky, but he met his match in Robert Lowell, who was then entering one of his periodic descents into insanity and was involved with a "pretty little girl in Cambridge, who wanted to write poetry." Lowell asked the girl to join them...
The kindly priest's public account of his 19-month captivity at times very nearly obscured the fact that it had been a dreadful ordeal. From the day he was abducted by eight men as he went about his duties as director of Catholic Relief Services in Lebanon, he was...
Like millions of others during those dreadful years, Saint-Exupery had ample reason for anguish. His dream of defending his country from Nazi invaders was interrupted by the fall of France in 1940. The collaborationist Vichy government, hoping to appropriate some of his fame and prestige, named the writer-pilot...
But by 1920 he had also been thinking long and hard about public art, which cubism never pretended to be. He was already a celebrity in Mexico. When Alvaro Obregon swept into office as President, Rivera found he had an enthusiast in the Minister of Education, Jose Vasconcelos, who invited...