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...Faces: while stone-bald Matyas Rakosi engulfed the Social Democrats, and began slicing up the opposition with his "salami tactics" (a slice at a time), Nagy gave Communism its soft face. Appointed Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament, he made a reputation as a "sincere" and "earnest" speechmaker, taught agrarian science at Budapest University, published books on theology, made no protest when his daughter married a practicing Protestant clergyman. By sitting around Budapest cafes fingering his soup-strainer mustache, talking soccer and politics, hinting that there were other methods of doing things than those adopted by Russians, he cultivated "liberal" attitude...
...Slice of Bologna. A favorite anecdote of art historians has long been the answer the Carracci gave when asked which one had painted a picture. "I Carracci; we all had a hand in it." But though in their early days all three combined forces to create frescoes for the wealthy Bologna merchants, the present exhibition clearly shows that far from being a painting factory, the Carracci were men of marked and individual bent...
...family, it was Annibale (1560-1609), youngest of the three, who was easily the most talented. Silent, melancholy and absorbed in his work in later years, in his youth he loved to caricature his drinking companions, and in The Butcher Shop (see cut) painted a slice of Bologna life that is the hit of the current show. His crowded, Michelangelesque murals for the Palazzo Farnese in Rome set the style for baroque ceilings for the rest of the 17th century, are today ranked by such art historians as New York University's Walter Friedlaender as "second only to Michelangelo...
Anthony Boucher, the editor of Fantasy in Science Fiction, represents the second important viewpoint. As he maintains, "Non-slice-of-life fiction gives the author a chance to spotlight and to examine in greater detail certain aspects of human behavior." This could rightly be called the literary viewpoint. Boucher, it might be added, is the mystery book editor for the New York Times...
...share of the market. But in 1957, Chrysler will be loaded for bear. Cautiously, Colbert himself says only that "our sales targets have been projected on the basis of an expected steadily increasing demand for our products." But Chrysler's brass clearly expects at least a 20% slice...