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...most fascinating and picturesque in the nation," the Justice wrote. "It is a refuge, a place of retreat, a long stretch of quiet and peace at the Capitol's back door-a wilderness area where man can be alone with his thoughts, a sanctuary where he can commune with God and with nature ... I wish the man who wrote your editorial would take time off and come with me. We would go with packs on our backs and walk the 185 miles to Cumberland. I feel [;that].... he would return a new man and use the power of your...
Roman Boyhood. Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli was born in 1876, five years after Communism's first major appearance in Europe, the bloody Paris Commune. The Pacelli family had served the Holy See for two centuries: his father was dean of the Holy See's lawyers. Eugenio, a shy and serious child, was early drawn to religion. With candlesticks, tablecloths and saints' pictures begged from his mother, he played at celebrating Mass. Once, when asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, he answered: "I would like to be a martyr-but without the nails...
Trapping the Terrible. Rouault's start was as violent as much of his painting has been; he was born in a cellar during the bombardment of Paris in the 1871 insurrection of the Commune. A poor boy. he started work at 14 in a stained-glass factory. The experience helped shape his art. in which the world gleams like colored bits of broken bottles. At 20, Rouault quit his job to study painting at the feet of a sympathetic academician named Gustave Moreau, who gave him solid training and a word of hard advice: "Give thanks to God that...
Unfortunately, the commune to which Arthur was assigned had no place for such a bright (and unmuscular) young man. Arthur was soon selling lemonade on the streets of Haifa-and selling so little that he turned in his equipment after a few days. Then followed a year of semi-starvation, which Arthur softened by composing fairy stories in Hebrew...
...illusions. Florence Eldridge plays an insecure Southern belle, wound up in the intricacy of a false emotion, who sees in life only what she wants. She cannot believe that her disillusioned husband (perhaps too much her antithesis to be really credible) wishes to divorce her merely in order to commune with his own thoughts. Miss Eldridge's interpretation of the part, with her emphasis on the delicate superficialities of existence, is certainly the outstanding performance of the play...