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HE IS OLD, so is she. They live in the same building yet you see them pass each other on the stairs without talking. Time goes by and he looks older and frailer while she, despite her bulk, decays faster until one day she faints climbing the stairs. This stirs...
It is fitting that the former railroad administrator dies before the former whore. He is too preoccupied with sacrificing a good, full life for health and a little more time to actually be able to outlast Madame Rosa-she has lived the good, full life too long to be able...
A statesman dies, while his troubled republic survives-and grieves
- At this very moment, a gang of fellow travelers in the Sacred College of Cardinals is laying plans to elect a Pope who is soft on Communism. After the election the new Pontiff will sell out the Western democracies. (Who more appropriate than Cardinals to say better Red than dead...
The first problem in describing Paul Mellon's role as patron is to draw comparisons. "Medicean" is the cliché for large acts of art patronage. This myth dies hard: started by the ruthless city-boss Lorenzo Il magnifico himself, prolonged by his sons, nourished by poets, flacks and...