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Poetry in Japan is considered too pleasant an art to be left exclusively to poets. Japanese of all backgrounds like to compose spare, highly stylized verses* whose aim is to evoke a moment or a mood, rather than convey a moral or tell a story, as in Western poetry. One...
Awaiting execution
Getty boasts an even longer pedigree for his Diana, tracing it to 1655 (Rubens died in 1640), when the Marquis de Leganés. Spanish Ambassador to Brussels and a friend of Rubens', listed the work in an inventory of his collection. Getty's Rubens expert, Columbia Professor...
Died. Elia Cardinal dalla Costa. 89, Archbishop of Florence and oldest member of the Sacred College, a tall, austere cleric who helped thousands of Italians to escape Fascist execution during World War II, became known throughout Italy as "the Cardinal of Charity"; of pulmonary complications; in Florence.
His fate, as decreed by the court: death by hanging. Appeals to the Israeli Supreme Court and to President Izhak Ben-Zvi will postpone the almost certain execution for several months. Until then, Eichmann will be held in a special cell on the top floor of the British-built Teggart...