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...Seville, an official inquiry began into the authorship and origin of the pamphlets. At week's end, hard-pressed old Cardinal Segura was quoted: "Not even the Civil Guards will get me out of my diocese...
Although the Lawrence School portrait, of doubtful authorship, fairly approximates the features of Keats's death mask, the most famous studies are those by Keats's great friend, Artist Joseph Severn. Severn nursed Keats through his last illness. His faithfulness to the dying poet, in fact, made him a big name in the art world, and his paintings sold like hot cakes for 20 years afterward...
...four-letter words, Shamela nonetheless runs high in four-letter situations. Locked away for decades in the rare-books collections of university libraries and sometimes contested as to authorship, it has been newly edited and annotated by a University of Michigan English professor, Sheridan W. Baker Jr., and is now available to any reader who can stomach a well-hung bit of 18th century game...
...made ready for burning. A crown of straw and leaves sprinkled with sulphur was placed on his head, and a thick rope was wound around his neck. He was chained to a stake and a pile of fresh wood lay at his feet. A book of his own authorship, called The Restoration of Christianity, was bound to his arm. When the executioner waved the torch before his face, he cried out: "O Jesus. Son of the Eternal God, have pity on me." Then the faggots were...
Almost as astounding as the blunt confession was its authorship. For the last four years Nikita Khrushchev has been the chief architect of the program whose results he now deplored. He masterminded the agrogorod scheme, designed to further collectivize the already collectivized farmers and to drive them off the land and into agricultural cities (agrogoroda). But by their quiet resistance, Russia's millions of muzhiks made the scheme a failure, drove Khrushchev into retreat. Result: the new policy grudgingly gives the peasants the right to own more livestock of their own, promises them big price increases for their requisitioned...