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...Spain. The King was so fond of Godoy that he wanted him to be part of the family, and Godoy himself languidly wrote of his marriage: "I obeyed in this, as in all the acts of my life, with loyalty and submission." But what was merely a bore to the favorite was torture to his wife...
Summer education in the early years, however, bore little resemblance to the present large-scale venture. Organization was almost completely lacking. No central office directed the program until 1887 or 1888; in one of these years, the Corporation appointed a committee, headed Professor Nathaniel Shaler, to oversee the summer program...
...tidal bore of abstract art flows so overpoweringly these days that most critics find it profitless trying to swim against the current. But last week at the 30th Venice Biennale. 400 painters and sculptors from 33 nations exhibited some 3,000 works whose overall impression was so weird that the experts, almost to a man, rose in revolt. "It is not the world of art.'' said Turin's outraged La Stampa, "but a world of impenetrable moors and silent, sterile landscapes." Added respected Critic Leonardo Borghese, writing in Milan's Carriere della Sera: "Ridiculous, sad, terrible...
Tanned, relaxed and obviously happy after six honeymooning Caribbean weeks ("It would not surprise her family or friends," reported the Hearst Headline Service, "if she bore her first child before spring"), Britain's Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones returned...
Wilder himself backs away from the question with alarm. Says he: "I want to be truthful, but if I have to choose between truth and entertainment, I will always choose entertainment. I have a vast and terrible desire never to bore...