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Archduke Felix, tall, thin, third-string heir to Austria-Hungary's vanished throne, bobbed up in Mexico City (first Habsburg to visit Mexico since his ancestor, the Emperor Maximilian, was shot there), denied that his visit was political, failed to get audiences with Mexico's President Avila Camacho. Russia's Ambassador Constantine Oumansky departed declaring that if he had his way Spanish would replace German as Austria's national tongue...
...played by running one finger up and down a free fingerboard, tones are produced strictly by finesse of touch, not by mechanical means. Because it is a single-voiced instrument that does not play chords, each instrument in the ensemble is a personality, like each instrument in a string quartet, and lends itself to a great variety of color and volume...
...Winnebago who spent five years at Pennsylvania's famed Carlisle Indian School as a second-string quarterback, squat, copper-colored, greying Charlie Cloud is described as one who "thinks in Indian and writes in English." Thumbing a ride weekly from the Indian mission six miles north to the Banner-Journal office, he calmly usurps Editor Harriet Thomas Noble's desk to pencil his weekly stint on scratch paper, after which he generally cozens a taxi fare home from her. His choice of subjects is limitless, ranging from the weather ("The weather is change wind every half...
...music, sad-eyed Composer Arnold Schönberg, took artistic revenue on the man who in 1933 swept him and his cryptic music from the concert halls of the Third Reich. The revenge: a recitation based on the booming rhetoric of Byron's Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, with string orchestra accompaniment by the New York Philharmonic...
...style, with this deadly description: "His novel ... is like a church lit, but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently placed, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an eggshell, a piece of string...