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...tones in the season of sounds. There are others: the soaring nobility of Handel's Messiah; the cheerful beauty of carols that somehow sound best in the snow outside somebody's front door at night; the tinkling bells on the live sheep in the village créche, and the clink of coins in the kettles set up for the poor; the thousand different squeals of joy that children invent...
...PROGRESS IN A SINGLE DAY! Accounting was ignored as a "headache that stands in the way of production." Women were freed from the "drudgery" of housework only to labor 18 hours a day in field and factory. Old folks were shut away in "happiness homes," babies in state-run crèches. In the nurseries. Chinese moppets sang...
...Handholding. Though Lolly has five assistants, she is still her own best legman, gleans most of her items from the ceaseless jangle of CR 1-4222, from her nightly round of parties, openings and dinners, and from rumors and tips phoned her by ingratiating pressagents and later nailed down by Lolly's direct confrontation with the parties involved...
...most, jewelry is a diversion. Says Jean Cocteau, who is represented by gold pendants and a circular medal, "I entered poetry as one enters religion, and if I happen to work at something beside writing, it is like the monks who make liqueurs or figurines for the crèche." Picasso's fascination with gold in jewelry was born in the dentist's chair; seeing gold being cast for his teeth, he bought a set of dentist's drills and tools and made a necklace. He says that the gold content is unimportant: his jewelry would have...
...really a "picture of the Earthly Paradise," where everything is pure fun because all are pure. Moral judgments do not apply to Firbank's innocents any more than to the characters in Through the Looking Glass. A police dog with baby-blue eyes is baptized in white crème de menthe. Why not? "Where all are innocent, what difference is there between a dog and a baby...