Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shown in Paris last fortnight, proved as pleasing as ever. Magritte, a surrealist with a sense of humor, cares little for the Freudian froufrou that once made his colleagues seem different and daring. His paintings often mean just what their titles say: Sea Sickness-a green, checkered coat crumpled beneath the glare of a garish orange sun; The Last Meal-a macabre scene of a candlelit room, in which tears drop from nowhere and a woman brings a dying man an indigestible last supper of wine, a carrot and a hard-boiled...
...surgeon, had had a pretty good idea of what was coming. In the courtroom at Nürnberg last year, while his trial droned on, he doodled on a sheet of paper. On one sheet he drew a wooden gallows with 13 steps leading to the rope and noose. Beneath it he wrote: "Heil Hitler, ich komme bald" (I'm coming soon). Last week, in the courtyard of the Landsberg prison, Karl Brandt went to his gallows.* With him went six other Nazi doctors and SS officers, including Karl Gebhardt, Himmler's physician, and bearded, Mephistophelean SS Colonel...
...through their traditional devotions, joined by a papal legate, ten bishops, hundreds of priests and thousands of faithful Frenchmen (Stes.-Maries is a shrine not only to gypsies but to Catholics). Rain whipped across the swampy, sandy Camargue plain; in front of the fortresslike church, the officiating legate stood beneath a bright green umbrella. The drenched gypsies carried statues of their saints to the shore while Gardians (Provencal cowboys) charged ahead into the sea. A bishop blessed the sea and the gypsies cried: "Vive Sainte Sarah!" The other pilgrims responded: "Vivent les Saintes Maries...
...OWDS-the Oxford University Dramatic Society) produced a masque in her honor. Oxford had not entertained a royal visitor with this traditional Renaissance theatrical since 1636, when Charles I and his Queen Henrietta Maria paid a call*. In sunlit, flower-decked Radcliffe Quadrangle at University College, Elizabeth was ensconced beneath a blue-&-gold canopy while from a swan-shaped chariot (drawn by redheaded twins) Venus and Neptune delivered their welcoming speeches. Beneath the glassy eyes of movie and television cameras, a fully armored St. George charged in, precariously perched on a white horse that at first stubbornly refused to face...
...wisecracking newsman. He does not look the part, and he was not brought up to play it. Instead of the rough-&-tumble school of the police beat, he went to Groton and Harvard, where he wandered around with volumes of Proust and Joyce under his arm and thought politics beneath discussion. His silk shirts and tailored suits are as out of character as his high-pitched "ah there" voice. He exudes a cultivated and imperious...