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...cannot paint in front of it, commits its contours to memory. She needs recollection in tranquillity. "When I'm out in the country, I'm overwhelmed by it," she says, and so she tackles her oils indoors. To get overwhelmed, she frequently goes to a carriage house amidst the potato fields on the seaside flats of Long Island: "I love the light out there, not just the sunny days, but also the luminous fogs...
...behalf of the Communists. By 1960 the Confederation of Labor was completely controlled by Communists. In early February, 1960, the President of the PSP (Partido Socialista Popular) publically equated anti-Communism and treason. The same month Soviet Deputy Premier Mikoyan signed the first Soviet-Cuban agreement in Havana, "amidst an official reception that betokened more than trade relations...
When 40 years of liquor rationing* ended in 1955, most Swedes laid in ample reserve stocks, vowing never to be caught short again. But there they were, with cupboards bare last week, amidst the direst shortage since the height of government controls...
...Bedzin. Poland. For two years after he managed to get to Israel in 1958. Barenblat attracted no particular attention. Then, during introductions at a concert in a kibbutz, a member of the audience suddenly leaped up and shouted: "Barenblat, I remember you! You murdered Jews!" The concert broke up amidst angry confusion. In 1961, after a police investigation. Barenblat was arrested and charged under the Israeli law punishing Nazis and their collaborators who were members of "hostile organizations"-the same law under which Eichmann was tried as a Gestapo member, and which the government now wants extended to include...
...mocks it. In "The Bucket of Blood" Jay Detweiler runs a small bar, and has an affair with a local prostitute. Finally he ends the romance when she wants to hustle in his joint, even if it means marrying him. "He was sorry to break off with Jenny, and amidst his regret was deep appreciation of the compliment to himself and to her business in her willingness to marry him. It was easy to find a woman who would marry a man with a successful business, but Jenny had been willing to be a partner. It was a high compliment...