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...UNESCO villa on the outskirts of Beirut. Escorted by goggled Lebanese motorcycle cops and gowned Bedouins armed with golden daggers and Tommy guns, Saudi Arabia's King Saud arrived in a heavily curtained Cadillac. Setting aside old blood feuds, Iraq's young King Feisal and his cousin, Jordan's Hussein, Hashemites both, addressed Saud respectfully as "Father." Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly was on hand, freshly back from a visit to Moscow. In this impressive panoply, only Nasser's Ambassador to Lebanon was on hand to speak for Egypt...
Family & Early Life: Greatgrandfather was a political émigré who fled Austrian rule in Italy after Napoleonic Wars, settled down in England in Lamb House, Rye (later the home of Novelist Henry James) with his bride, a cousin of Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. Young Harold Caccia (pronounced Catch-a) went to Eton, graduated from Trinity College, Oxford...
...Shewing-Up of Blanch Posnet is a languid Western yarn, a genre in which the writer proves himself very ill at ease. Shaw is no cowboy. Neither is his hero, it must be admitted: Blanco is a kicking cousin of Dick Dudgeon, a would-be Hotspur in Levis and a grizzly beard, whose poetic force is out of place amid long-jawed neighbors. Blanco's tale is simple. He steals a horse. After a few twists involving first a slut then the mother of a just-dead baby, he is set free. The whole situation seems rather tired...
...most versatile painting family in Italian history was the Carracci of 16th century Bologna, two brothers and a cousin who burst on the post-Renaissance scene as tireless and talented jacks-of-all-styles. Singly or together, they could turn out madonnas with Raphael's angelic sweetness, turbulent figures that writhed in Michelangelesque contortions, landscapes as peaceful as Giorgione's, plus a wealth of portraits, murals, ceiling decorations, caricatures. Their proud boast was that by borrowing from the best of the Renaissance masters they avoided becoming the followers of any one, instead were the equals...
...Reservations." Though the Communist party is technically outlawed, the runaway victor for Jerusalem's one Christian seat was Communist Dr. Yacup Zeheddine, who won on his personality as much as his politics. One of Jerusalem's two Moslem seats was easily carried by the rabidly anti-Western cousin of the onetime Mufti of Jerusalem. Whatever Jordanian government emerged from the election was bound to be antiWestern...