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...academician with books and slide rule could have calculated their attack in advance. It was the experience of living combat airmen and their dead comrades that had worked out the pattern for the attack, now used from the Aleutians to New Guinea, from Burma to Europe's battlefield...
...Bonapartism seemed about to be vived by the Bourbons: the court censor forbade one of Hugo's plays. Hugo's Royalism was replaced by passionate Republicanism. He wrote an ode to the revolutionaries who ousted Charles X (1830). After King Louis-Philippe abdicated (1848), Hugo, now an Academician and ily's insanity. Bethel was judged insane, sent to a sanitarium for 20 years. At that point Sister Lerryn discovered that poor Bethel was not really a Treveryan after all-just "a child Mama had that had not been Papa's." For reasons "we shall never know...
...magnificent sonorities he wrings from it in ensemble approach at times the effect of a full string orchestra, particularly in the rich and lyrical Introduction, which employs melodies from Brazilian jazz to excellent effect. The Prelude and Fugue show a scholarly understanding of Bach worthy of the most erudite academician, yet there is plenty of original vigor; one doesn't feel that this is just another exercise in composition being backed over. Villa-Lobos handles the counter-point perfectly smoothly, and inside this frame-work gives free rein to his own ideas. In the Fugue possibly he confines himself more...
...statue was brought to the U. S. by Edith Lutyens, niece of famed English Royal Academician Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens. As Miss Lutyens was on the point of leaving London Sculptor Epstein impulsively put it in her care. It was not even wrapped. Before she got to the boat tram air-raid alarms sounded. "The blitz was quite strong and the guns were cracking off and shrapnel was whizzing about," said Miss Lutyens, describing her flight later. "I was absolutely terrified that it would be hit or have a hand or its head knocked...
...most of the problem wizards of the air. Manhattan-born, now 44, Mr. Anthony boasts that he has dabbled in law, studied psychology under Freud, claims that he holds three degrees from assorted universities. On the ground that he doesn't want to be looked upon as an academician, he refuses to divulge the names of his alma maters. He abhors the U. S. educational system. "It isn't," he remarks, "worth a goodgoddam...