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...height of the collecting boom, dealers advised clients to sell their Rembrandts and buy posters. Paris was so plastered with posters that the National Assembly felt forced to pass the famed "Défense d'afficher loi du 29 juillet 1881." But after World War I, posters fell off sadly in artistic repute and popularity. Nowadays the posters on the walls of Paris are scarcely more remarkable than the signs prohibiting them...
...incidental music, which unmistakably points up both the discordant atmosphere that permeates the castle at Elsinore and the distorted Mannerist style of the play itself. One of the numbers, which is heard several times, is a virtual paraphrase of the "Devil's Triumphal March" from Stravinsky's L'histoire du soldat...
...from acquiring stock or assets of another "where in any line of commerce . . . the effect . . . may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly." In case after case, the trustbusters are applying Section 7 with success. It was the basis for the 1957 decision forcing Du Pont to sell its 23% of outstanding stock in General Motors; in the important 1962 Brown Shoe-Kinney case, the court used it to rule out a merger between a manufacturer and a retailer in the same line of business. During the past year, the court relied on Section...
Priests who would play Luther are notably rare in the Roman Catholic Church today, and Father Du Bay became something of a national celebrity. A fresh-faced man of 29, he had twice been transferred from parishes on charges of pressing for civil rights with excessive zeal. He then applied for mission service in Kenya, and instead was made administrative assistant in a mostly Negro parish in Compton, an industrial suburb of Los Angeles. Impressed by his parishioners' passionate concern for equality, Father Du Bay did a slow burn. One morning fortnight ago, he said Mass, then went...
...Father Du Bay never meant to play the Luther game to the point of leaving the church, and Mclntyre responded by using a bishop's normal disciplinary powers. The chancery stripped Father Du Bay of his administrative duties and silenced...