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...Left Bank or Montmartre. Unscrupulous dealers pay them a few francs to paint "in the style" of a recognized master, then peddle the pictures to gullible bargain hunters, often-the experts believe-to unwary tourists from Latin America and the U.S. Most of the time the fakes are incredibly crude, but sometimes the canvases are so clever that they defy even a shrewd buyer...
...orita. The lessons were soon the talk of El Paso. Some parents, embarrassed because their kids casually chattered with maids whom the adults falteringly addressed in crude "kitchen Spanish," persuaded Superintendent Brown to start grownups' classes in conversational Spanish. Under Brown's guidance, Rivera has branched out into radio & TV programs aimed at putting thousands more in the area on a bilingual footing. This year Dr. Brown assigned two more classroom visitors (a señora and a señorita) to the circuit, which now takes in the second grade. In six more years, progressing one grade...
...pieces. Three more tribesmen walked into the ward of a government hospital at Kiambu, sought out their chief, Hinga Hinga, who was recovering from a Mau Mau ambush, and shot him dead in his bed. A white farmer, returning home to find his house a shambles, unearthed a crude Mau Mau note: "God must love you. We wanted your head." They got his headman's: it rolled over the farmer's boots when he flung open the door of the headman...
...Devil Rides Outside, by John H. Griffin. The turmoil of a young American torn between world and monastery; a first novel marked by crude energy and unashamed religious fervor (TIME...
...Devil Rides Outside, by John H. Griffin. The turmoil of a young American torn between world and monastery; a first novel marked by crude energy and unashamed religious fervor (TIME...