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Painter Bosch's versions of Hell are waist-deep in griffins, scarabs, metallic demons with forked tails, sinners whose truncated bodies are pierced by huge swords or impaled on giant musical instruments. Although he had his gentler moments on canvas, his earthly scenes abound in abandoned lovers, tortured sick men and money-loving monks, with a watching demon or two always close at hand. Through them runs a train of almost surrealistic symbolism, a cross patch of a witches' Sabbath and a psychoanalyst's nightmare, that has fascinated and baffled five centuries of art critics...
They had picked up votes from the disillusioned and impatient who abound in Italy's uneven economy. To these unhappy Italians they sold nostalgia, a promise to resurrect the old days when Italy strutted before the world as a first-class power, when decisions were made for, not by, the people, and when the Duce took care of everyone. Most important of all, the M.S.I, won backing from among the same group that financed Mussolini's rise-rich landowners and industrialists who fear even De Gasperi's mild reform program and want insurance against change...
...feasible, such as Buzzards Bay, and along the entire south shore. Beaches vary, from the smooth, uninterrupted sands of the eastern Atlantic to the rocky western shore. If one has the equipment, spearfishing is possible along the rocks of the west end and many varieties of edible places abound all along the coast...
Sarah Lawrence students, according to President Taylor, are "intellectually alive and alert." The myriad activities no doubt contribute to this state of being. Round table discussions and lectures, political and social clubs, publications, chorus and orchestra, and a dance and theatre group abound on Kimball Hill...
...that point some of the victims spoke up. Syria resented the report's stating the fact that beggars abound in Syria; Egypt did not want it said that Egyptian naturalization papers are sometimes obtained by palm-greasing. Saudi Arabia proposed that the report be "impounded and pulped." Belgium and France added their cavils. Russia denounced one passage in the report as "subversive activity...