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Last week Britain gratefully received Labor's choice. "Aneurin Bevan is a rousing one-man band," wrote the Laborite Daily Mirror. "But the leader of a party must be the conductor of a massive orchestra." From the far Tory right came an echoing chorus. Gaitskell, wrote Journalist Randolph Churchill (see PRESS), is "a first-class politician of patriotism and ambition. He has political guts, and merit. Let us salute...
...ovenful, like cookies, mostly for the grave trade. Whether out of superstition or sentiment, their wares were heaped in tombs, and so sometimes survived the centuries. Many of the figures are thought to be free little interpretations of lost great sculptures. They narrowly reflect, as in a rear-view mirror, the lucid, passionate, sun-swept world of the ancient Mediterranean...
...those who wish to broaden their knowledge on a century or so of fashion, Widener offers a number of interesting books. Among the earliest of the informative volumes is Mirror of the Graces whose author preferred to be called "A Lady of Distinction." She is a woman of many platitudes: "If beauty be a woman's weapon, it must be featured by the Graces, pointed by the eye of discretion, and shot by the hand of virtue...
...Northern tradition of Van Eyck, making art a mirror of nature, also continued in Durer. In the series of "Madonnas" done between 1495 and 1511 there is the crispness and detail, that are associated with Durer's greatest powers of draughtsmanship. His capacity for fantasy as well as natural representation, a legacy of the gothic cathedrals, is evident in the drawings on apocalyptical themes (see cut). General religious discontent in Germany fed the imagination of the people. They felt particularly close to apocalyptical events which many suspected would occur in their own time. We notice too in St. Michael...
...controversy began when the Princess decided not to marry the Group Captain (the church's stand against remarriage for divorced persons was a primary reason). Newspapers attacked the Archbishop of Canterbury: TIME TO RESIGN, headlined the Sunday Express. A RISING TIDE OF ANGER, echoed the Daily Mirror. Orators and public-house lawyers dusted off a fine old 28-letter spelling-bee stand-by which for some years had ranked as a public issue above vegetarianism but considerably below prevention of cruelty to animals. The word: antidisestablishmentarianism...