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...Devil. There is one other choice: alliance with the fellow-traveling Nenni Socialists. "The Christian Democrats must reckon with us, and we must reckon with them," Nenni said expansively. "Our terms will not be exorbitant...
George Francis Patrick Flaherty was riding his Irish luck. Rolling out for the Indianapolis 500-mile Memorial Day auto race, he wore a jaunty shamrock on his helmet, and he didn't give a tinker's dam for the auto racers' superstition that green is the devil's own color on the track. With his John Zink Special, almost an exact copy of last year's winner, 30-year-old Pat Flaherty had already spun through his trial heats fast enough to set a one-lap record: 146.056 m.p.h. In the big test itself, freckle...
...hothouse maturity of French teenagers has been a favorite theme of teenage French writers, e.g., Raymond Radiguet in Devil in the Flesh, francois Sagan in Bonjour Tristesse. In 1923, the late great Colette turned her fiftyish hand to the subject, produced a luminous and sensuously intuitive study of adolescent awakening. Republished in the U.S. for the first time in a quarter-century. The Ripening Seed has also taken scenario form as 1954's sensitively made but ineptly titled French film. The Game of Love. For the 16-and 15-year-old hero and heroine of this novel, love...
...meant for the priesthood, but, like Narrator O'Flaherty himself, who ran away from Blackrock College, the boy found another vocation. He is an artist. When he returns with his painting gear to his native hearth, the villagers regard him and his works as the very devil...
...That She-Devil." Neither the birth of an illegitimate son, Maurice,* when Suzanne was 18, nor her subsequent turbulent love affairs checked her career. Under Degas' tutelage, Suzanne improved her drawing and learned the technique of drypoint etching. She did most of her drawing at home, finding her ideal subjects in the figures of maids, charwomen and women friends whom she sketched, usually bathing. Degas, astonished at her natural talent, hung her work in his dining room, once chided her: "That she-devil of a Maria, what talent she has . . . Why do you show me nothing more...