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...caused little stir until a fortnight ago when Lindley's publicity-wise Shell Petroleum distributor got the press interested. Reporters and scholars flocked to the site. Sir Albert Richardson, president of the Royal Academy, traveled down to view the discovery, enthusiastically pronounced the paintings "unique." Said Egmont Lind, art restorer of Denmark's National Museum: "They are the only early wall paintings I have seen in England that have not been touched, apart from the deliberate disfigurement since the day they were painted...
...started to play-or rather, to sing. In Mozart's short Symphony No. 23, written when he was 17, the orchestra brought out a remarkable feeling of adolescent sentimentality-the oboe solo in the andante section positively swooned-as well as hints of emotional deeps. Beethoven's Egmont Overture, about as nearly threadbare as a Beethoven work can be, had its nap teaseled attractively. But the evening's piece de resistance was Symphony No. 7 by Anton Bruckner...
...INSURGENTS, by Vercors (308 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95). The hero of this odd novel is a weird doctor-poet who puts himself in a state of suspended animation for the good of humanity, or so he thinks. Fiftyish and French but drenched in decadent German romanticism, Egmont no longer practices medicine or writes poetry, but takes drugs and drifts through rooms replete with twisted vines, oddly shaped chemical phials and stuffed animals. As he confides to a friend: "I wouldn't be so bored if someone explained to me what it was all about, here on this planet...
...Egmont is snapped out of his boredom by a foot injury that begins to gangrene just when he comes across some books on yoga. Egmont decides to find out if death and disease can be vanquished by a conscious act of will. All that is needed, he feels, is to sink into one's "cellular consciousness" in order to control the action of body tissues. With his bosomy mistress Olga at his side, he enters a "semi-cataleptic" trance and "goes away" into his leg, clearing up the gangrene as the amazed Olga watches. Egmont is soon keen...
...Latin peoples are religiously undernourished," said Bishop Egmont M. Krischke of Southwestern Brazil backed up by Bishop Isabelo de los Reyes of the Philippine Independent Church and the Right Rev. Louis C. Melcher, Bishop of Central Brazil. Roman Catholic Latin Americans in rural areas, said Bishop Krisschke, have "their illiteracy and credulity exploited in a most sordid way " and in the cities better educated Catholics "are giving up what they suppose to be the Christian faith, but which is actually only a medieval version...