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...Stael was a romantic figure, a White Russian nobleman, son of the Baron Vladimir Ivanovitch de Stael-Holstein, who was dispossessed by the revolution. He was very tall, with a booming voice, a lyrical intelligence and the manic- depressive character of so many Russians, now lethargic and broody, now consumed with febrile energy. Desperately poor most of his life, he was generous to the point of folly; when money came, he threw it away like a cavalryman on a binge. He was acutely conscious of lineage and tradition. The art of the past, one might say, became De Stael...
...young man," Hemingway once wrote, "then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." In my case, the moveable feast was spread at the crossroads outside Paris' oldest church, the 6th century shrine of St. Germain-des-Pres. Baron Haussmann cut a boulevard through here during the Second Empire, and in came what memory still rates as the three best cafes in Paris, and thus the world. The first was the Flore (1865), celebrated as the headquarters of existentialism. "It was like home to us," Jean-Paul Sartre once...
What's black and white and yellow and blue and read all over Europe? British press baron Robert Maxwell hopes the answer to that riddle will soon be the European. Two years after announcing his intention to launch a Continent-wide newspaper, Maxwell will be bringing out the first issue on May 11. It will sell for the equivalent of 82 cents U.S. a copy in European capitals...
...curse, inflicted upon the family by a witch burned at the stake by one of Ruthven's ancestors, decrees that each succeeding baron must commit a crime each day or die in agony. Thus exposed, Ruthven must abandon Rose and return to Ruddigore Castle and begin his life of crime. After incurring the displeasure of the ghosts of his ancestors for performing crimes deemed too paltry (he forges his own will and disinherits a son he does not have), Ruthven discovers a way to escape the curse, and, in typical Gilbert and Sullivan style, live happily ever after...
...Bukovina. Father was sexually unfaithful to her and volcanic in temper; an anti-Semite who despised Nazis as Untermenschen; a watercolorist, photographer and architectural historian whose diversions included dragging a dead wild boar through the hall and up the stairs in the course of a soiree. Above all, Baron von Rezzori was an obsessive hunter, whose profound and almost mystical relation with the woods and the etiquette of the chase would mark his son for life. Finally there were the beloved Other, his sister, dead at 21, and the Pomeranian governess, "Bunchy," who presided over the boy's home education...