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...gondoliers was liveried in silk and velvet costumes copied from Tiepolo and other old masters. In 1951, Don Carlos, decked out in a curly peruke and balanced atop 16-in.-platform shoes that made him 6-ft. 10-in. tall, threw a costume party for 1,500 cafe socialites flown in from Paris, New York and London. Yet, "grand passions finish," as an old lady friend of Don Carlos noted last week. Venetians liked Don Carlos for a while, but cooled to him when he began pouring out whiskey "in spoonfuls." And so the splendiferous Spaniard turned...
...history teacher, began taking a blindly ultrarightist line in class-calling federal aid to education "Communistic," for example, and criticizing President Johnson for being friendly with Auto Unionist Walter Reuther. At the same time, Pleasantville was well supplied with right-wing literature, much of it distributed by a cafe owner who asserts that "Communism is infiltrating our schools through the National Education Association...
...Cafe." Indeed, the little magazine of anarchism called Revue Blanche was a polemical ally of the kind of art that the Hahnlosers loved...
...some local yahoos out looking for us, but we walked the twenty miles from Yazoo City to Flora in the ditches along the roadside. Yazoo City is a bad problem; we managed to get a lady run out of town just for serving us in her (Negro) cafe, and a man beaten just for talking to us. We've gone in there four times, canvassing for freedom votes--we've had three arrests, an eviction, and two beatings. It's a very weird feeling to walk along a street with a billy-swinging S.S. man three feet behind you--muttering...
Schwabing's broad, cafe-lined Leopoldstrasse also throngs with students from Ludwig-Maximilian's University, Germany's largest, with 22,000 enrollment. In bohemian bistros like the See-rose, where Kandinsky once caroused, the talk runs the gamut from Johnson (Uwe) to Johnson (Lyndon), while the beer flows on and on. But unlike the emaciated, hollow-eyed beatniks of Paris and New York, Munich's young bohemians exude a ruddy outdoor glow...