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...last week, Potsdam's Communist Maerkische Volksstimme had expressed its outrage. One trouble: too many of the wrong people ("dusty figures from Potsdam's attic") had been present. "We hope," said the paper, "that in future those parts of the population will be invited that belong there: the working people who sincerely honor and understand the life and works of our great maestro...
...houses in Levittown, which sell for a uniform price of $7,990, cannot be mistaken for castles. Each has a sharp-angled roof and a picture window, radiant heating in the floor, 12-by-16 ft. living room, bath, kitchen, two bedrooms on the first floor, and an "expansion attic" which can be converted into two more bedrooms and bath. The kitchen has a refrigerator, stove and Bendix washer; the living room a fireplace and a built-in Admiral television...
Whitman Abroad. Patria Mia does not sound as if it had been written, but as if it had been talked-between the hours of 2 and 4 a.m.. in a Bloomsbury attic. As with most such nocturnal monologues, which always seem dazzling in the dark, a lot of Pound's dicta could not survive the dawn; but some would stand up at high noon, e.g., his tribute to Walt Whitman: "One may not need him at home. It is in the air, this tonic of his. But if one is abroad; if one is ever likely to forget...
...Enjoys putting in animals," and "Won't paint a woman's hair if freshly waved." They never accept payment for portraits until delivered and approved, on the theory that unsatisfactory ones are "bad for the artist and bad for us. There's no public in the attic." But they sadly admit that "Someone always knocks a portrait. We can't guarantee the customer's relatives and friends will like it as much as he does...
Shortly before 10 p.m. the culprits entered the Union. They went straight to the attic, where they played cards by candlelight until about 1 a.m. Union officials made little comment on the affair, but one, when asked whether the tables would have been clean enough to eat from, exclaimed, "I'd hate...