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...Terrace. Returning through Russia, Nenni got the highest compliment of all: the Russians laid on a special plane which flew him down to the "splendid marble villa" of Nikita Khrushchev near Yalta in the Crimea. Nenni sat with Khrushchev on a terrace overlooking the Black Sea, and companionably discovered that he and Nikita were as one in many things. German unification (both against), a European "security" pact (both for), etc., etc. According to Nenni, the closest they came to discussing Italian politics was a casual remark of Khrushchev's: "And, by the way, how is Togliatti feeling these days...
...when every young American painter dreamed of making the pilgrimage to Paris, where he could shape his style under the influence of the great French masters. Today a growing number of U.S. expatriates are coming home convinced that there is no longer much contemporary European painting worth the compliment of imitation. Most recent example: San Francisco-born Lawrence Calcagno, 39, whose first one-man show in New York was on exhibit last week at the Martha Jackson Gallery...
...closing let me compliment Mr. Pope on having written one of the most charming examples of unconscious humor that it has ever been my pleasure to read. George Axelred
Wrote Author Wouk: "I don't know whether the subjects of your cover stories usually receive the compliment in pleased silence, or what the protocol...
...underlying it all was a chill that cordiality could not conceal: a steely and unsentimental confrontation of men, of countries, of codes that were antipathetic to each other. At one point, Khrushchev, essaying a small compliment, remarked that much liberated German wine had reached Russia since the war, and that he had come to like it. "Come visit me, my friend," said Adenauer slowly, "and I will show you that guest wine is much better than liberated wine...