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...large proportion of the council's art purchases have been moderns, and this fact alone has been enough to set conservatives bellowing. Last year, the old guard even got a chance to bellow with laughter : the council paid out ?500 for a spiky abstraction called Autumn Landscape which proved to be so thoroughly abstract that it got printed upside down in the Festival of Britain catalogue. But doughty Horse Painter Sir Alfred Munnings, 73, onetime president of the Royal Academy, was not amused. "This thrusting of . . . third-rate opinions down the throats of a public who still believe...
Rags to Bitchery. Lamiel was to begin her life in an orphanage, become a Parisian courtesan, marry a duke, and die the mistress of a robber-chief. From autumn 1839 to spring 1842 Stendhal sketched the outline of her progress from rags to riches. He described her adoption by a childless couple, her entry as a servant-companion into the household of a duchess, her initiation into the facts of upper-class life, i.e., mingled boredom, bitchery, fear and arrogance. He did portraits of varying completeness of the men in her life, ranging from a Machiavellian, hunchbacked doctor...
...steadier professional game. The old fan now sits in his living room choosing his afternoon entertainment from a channeled selection. If he misses the late fall feeling of dump concrete, cold hot dogs and warm brandy, if he misses the "Peanuts," the "Get your colors," of a bright autumn day, he isn't talking...
...Stevens began to publish the magazine "Poetry," for which he has won two prizes. He also was awarded the Bollingen Prize from the Yale University Library in 1949. Among his works are "Harmonium," a collection of lyric poems, "Auroras of Autumn," and several plays...
...northeast, around Udine in the province of Friuli, the Communist Garibaldi brigade and the non-Communist Osoppo brigade had been fighting as one division. The Osoppos were commanded by a tough regular army officer named Francesco de Gregori, whose nom de guerre was Bolla ("Bubble"). In the autumn of 1944 Bolla discovered that the Garibaldis were playing footie with Yugoslav Communists, and were more interested in grabbing chunks of Italian territory for Tito than fighting the common enemy. When Bella's division commander, a Communist, ordered the division across the border for incorporation into the Yugoslav army, Bolla refused...