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...While jobless, Washer paid $25 for a painting in a secondhand bookstore in Los Angeles. Later, art experts verified it as an old master by Italy's Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, appraised it at $100,000. Washer still...
...resurrection of mankind." (Tim Finnegan was originally the hero of an Irish vaudeville song who falls off a ladder and is thought to be dead until a friend splashes whiskey over him at the funeral wake.) The four parts of Joyce's novel reflect Italian Philosopher Giovanni Battista Vice's theory that history eternally passes and repasses through four phases: theocratic, aristocratic, democratic, chaotic. Finnegans Wake suggests that life has again reached the stage of chaos and is awaiting a divine thunderclap that will bring the world to its senses and start the four-part cycle anew...
...just seated myself next door when it happened," he cabled. "A sudden overwhelming roar, then shattered glass tinkling all around us. It was dark; huge masses of black smoke blotted the light from the room. A wild dissonant chorus of pain pierced up from the Via Cesare Battista. There were some 30 bodies and parts of bodies strewn in death's strange shapes over the street. And there were many others...
...work, and the whole range of tools -swan and goose quill, silverpoint, chalk, charcoal, pencil. His "Old Masters" range from an unknown Egyptian artist's outline drawing of Rameses IV to a 18th Century sleeping figure by Toulouse-Lautrec. Along the way are such choice items as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's gracious chalk masterpiece Head of a Youth (see cut), and Edouard Manet's brush sketch for his great painting Olympia...
Captain Lee Soeman, Varsity heavyweight, will be making his last appearance as an undergraduate, for he leaves College at midyears. The Crimson squad has its work cut out against the Quakers, who feature a number of Eastern championship possibilities including Dick de Battista, who holds the title in the 175-pound class. He will wrestle Pete Fuller, Freshman hopeful...