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LETTERS FROM MADAME LA MARQUISE DE Sévigné (389 pp.)-Selecfed and translated by Violet Hammersley-Harcourt, Brace...
...excuse to justify the expense account. Before he left Paris last week, the Prince gave reporters an idea of what he had on his mind: "The ideal woman, I see her with long hair floating in the wind, the color of autumn leaves. Her eyes are blue or violet, with flecks of gold. Furthermore, she should be practiced in all sports without being champion in any one. I want her to be intelligent but not an intellectual. I want an ordinary woman who will give me an extraordinary feeling. I want her to give me the feeling that...
Tricks & Treats. To make their museums a part of community living, most Midwest directors are willing to turn handsprings. The Des Moines Art Center, which boasts three kitchens and a movie theater, gives the annual rose show and lends space to the African Violet Society. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts throws open its doors for a four-day Christmas show, last year had 21,673 visitors turn up to learn Christmas games, cooking and gift wrapping. Minneapolis' up-to-date Walker Art Center pulls in young and old alike with its jazz concerts. The museums eagerly share with...
...paintings appear to be sweeping prospects across the Northwest's mist-shrouded glaciers, mountain ranges and stormy coasts. Only slowly do the wraithlike figures of Callahan's inner vision-luminous white men, women and ghostly, plunging broncos-disentangle themselves from the black, grey, ocher-beige and violet whorls of rock...
Fairweather's Friends. The anti-Tau-rum faction mobilizes under its natural leader, Washington's leading witch-hunter, Senator Jason Ransom. When an over-Taurumed African violet is left by accident in Ransom's car. and turns into a "huge writhing mass," the Senator, envisaging a "Red assassin," empties his revolver into the back-seat brush. Soon he is alerting his colleagues, "I can hardly believe the unbelievable extent of this conspiracy," and grabbing scare headlines, e.g., "RANSOM SAYS REDS PLAN ATTACK ON U.S. CURRENCY...