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...Manhattan's ramshackle Bible House, which shelters the New Masses and a raft of other left-wing and labor groups, there was a new stir of activity. Partisan Review, bimonthly magazine of the literary Left, had found an angel. So it was about to go monthly, and pay its editors a salary for the first time...
...Angel Standing By. It was a better notice than most 17-year-olds get. More important, Isaac's angels were still with him. "I know today that I would not be a violinist if I had not had sponsors. I would have gone back like the others to be a good or bad teacher, or to play in an orchestra...
...realized that "what I wanted to defend for twenty years could not be defended by Communists." During the war, he fought in the French underground. It was then that his search grew most desperate. In his wartime novel, La Lutte avec I'Ange (The Struggle with the Angel-so far published only in a limited Swiss edition), he cried out: "Has the notion of man a meaning...
...remembered last week as he strode through the heavily carpeted chambers of the Casa Rosada, chain-smoking strong "43" cigarets, trying to make up his mind. His decision was finally made between ballet numbers in Buenos Aires' rococo Teatro Colón. He dispatched quaking Interior Minister Angel Borlenghi to the block-square police headquarters in Calle Moreno to hand Velazco his ultimatum. Borlenghi had reason to quake; Velazco had publicly slapped him only four months before...
...Angel & Devil. "Out of one of his eyes," said a contemporary, of Goethe, "looks an angel, out of the other a devil." In Goethe, the elements of passion and discipline were so bafflingly mixed that he could reach the hearts and minds of millions as a poet* and yet, as government official, callously confirm the death sentence of a child-mother convicted of infanticide. "I am not the first," says Mann, "to find [this] almost as shattering as the whole of Faust...