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...60th birthday, the experts trooped through rooms of tapestries, paintings, ceramics and illustrations, studied the forms and startling colors, then hurried home to write their critiques. Said Paris' Le Figaro: "Lurçat has reached heights of success higher than was expected. Tapestry is à la mode." Said Le Monde: "Lurçat has made the wool sing again...
...Berlin, at a Nazi meeting. It was not the content of Schumacher's speech that startled me. I had no objection to what he had to say . . . but the way he spoke was simply quite frightening. Unconsciously, he seemed to have acquired Hitler's terminology, his screeching mode of speech, his gestures and histrionic intonations . . . He barked like an SS sergeant...
...most part, Rome enjoyed the show, but some viewers thought that possibly one or two of the Americans had let Italy influence them too strongly. Said Modernist Afro Basaldella of a canvas showing a tumbled staircase lined with allegorical figures: "This nostalgia for the classical mode Italiana . . . may be excusable in Americans, but in Italians it would be unforgivable...
...long as our citizens call their tongue "English," they will suffer from a lingual inferiority complex. Good Americans will feel a certain compunction to speak good English. This is not good for Patriotism. Americanism cannot thrive when its very mode of communication is branded with an alien label. Before America Became Great, there may have been some who secretly wished that the colonies might some day return to the Empire, but these men have long since disappeared. Their lingual crutch should go with them...
...silver dollar across the Potomac). Most stores offered only a small number of real buys, used them as decoys to unload trade-ins, old models, other slow-moving stock. Even so, some merchants said that sales, as usual, were twice those of any other day in the year. The Mode men's shop reported it took in $8,500, triple usual sales. Nevertheless, Proprietor Walter Nordlinger viewed the whole affair darkly: "It's getting too big. It's becoming a monster that some day may destroy...