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Accounts that German civilians have welcomed the advancing Allies infuriate him. "I cannot understand the fact that hardly any resistance was offered in Cologne," he complains. Especially painful is the report from his home town. "The news that Rheydt received the Americans with white flags makes me blush," he admits. "One of these white flags flew from the house where I was born." Denouncing the "cynicism of the Americans" for singing God Bless America at the end of a service in Cologne Cathedral, he writes on April 2: "What humiliations have we still to suffer before the moment of deliverance...
...weekends regularly. Each time one child left the house, he replaced it with a dog or two. He doesn't mind his granddaughter coming home for the holiday, he tells us, but he doesn't understand why she insists on bringing home bums who he cares nothing about. We blush...
More to the point, Ariadne's music has the blush of innocent freshness to it.It floats from atonality to tonality and back with dramatic precision, bringing to life the libretto's strange world and humanizing its perplexed cast of characters...
Rubens never forgot the lesson of Venetian art: with every object, from a wineglass to a woman's belly, brought to its fullest luster as substance, "luxury" meant completeness of being. There is something quite transcendental about Rubens' incessant delight in the material world. Every dimple or blush on the skin of Helene Fourment, the child wife of his old age (she was 16, he 53, when they were married in 1630), is both the record of desire and a proclamation of God's generosity. Rubens' world was tumescent; even the eyes in his portraits, large...
...ordered a second printing and is selling that out as well. The sales have been particularly impressive considering the formidable cost of the books ($25 for a boxed set of paperbacks), their daunting length (4,624 pages), and their lack of anything that would make a Victorian schoolgirl blush...