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...Chrysanthemum and the Sword (Houghton Mifflin; 1946) by Ruth Benedict. A brilliant tour de force written by a U.S. anthropologist who had never set foot in Japan, but who, through interviews, the study of antiquarian papers and Japan's own vast literature about itself, reached penetrating conclusions about Japanese society, its disciplines and its notions of good and evil...
...physician (with a big swimming pool), and Carole Tregoff, his pretty paramour, were in the midst of a trial for their lives, accused of murdering the doctor's wife in cold blood. On the other side of the world the missing heiress to a typewriter fortune, Debutante Gamble Benedict, turned up in Paris with her Rumanian lover, a married man (see PEOPLE...
...never meet but there's a skirmish of wit between them"; and the inspired farce of Dogberry, Verges, and the night watch. (When he used Much Ado as the basis of his last opera, Berlioz had no trouble in discerning the gold; and he entitled the result Beatrice and Benedict...
Died. Pietro Canonica. 90, Italian sculptor who concentrated on heads of state (Russia's Alexander II, Turkey's Kemal Pasha) and churchmen (Benedict XV, Pius XI, St. John Bosco), fashioned the new bronze doors for Allied-bombed Monte Cassino Abbey, picturing U.S. and British air forces alongside Goths and Huns as the abbey's destroyers, composed operas (Miranda, Bride of Corinth); in Rome...
When a West Point court-martial decided that Plebe Edgar Allan Poe was not officer material, it rendered a sound judgment. It was not only that the overage (22) cadet had been a U.S. army private, that he drank, ran up heavy debts and asserted (falsely) that Benedict Arnold was his grandfather. Poe was a poet and a born soldier of misfortune -ill-armed against the world. Life was a bad dream to him; he is remembered today not for his success in coming to terms with it but for the fantasies and fictions that celebrated his defeat...