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...cafes for hot coffee and rich pastry, while their feet froze and their necks blistered from the heat of overhanging radiant coils. Along the broad Kurfürstendamm, young art students collected rent money by drawing colored chalk reproductions of the madonnas of Giorgione and Fra Angelico. In the fairyland of the big department stores, late shoppers were snapping up collapsible 6-ft. Christmas trees, black lace nightgowns from Paris, Guardsmen neckties from London. Retsina wine from Greece...
Died. A. (for Abraham) J. (for Joseph) Balaban, 73, Midwest impresario of the 1920s movie-palace era who operated on the idea that theaters should be "a thing of beauty, a fairyland," and with his elder brother Barney, later president of Paramount Pictures, built a 100-theater chain (now merged with Paramount) featuring Arabian Nights decor, corps of military ushers, and the rumble of mighty Wurlitzers; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...quarter-century later, Lewis Carroll, as the world by then called Dodgson, still remembered "that golden afternoon almost as clearly as if it were yesterday and the three eager faces, hungry for news of fairy-land." There had been many such outings, and many other reports from fairyland for ten-year-old Alice and her sisters. But on this day. Alice Liddell recalled, "the stories must have been better than usual," and she pleaded to the lonely, gawky mathematics master...
Inspired Guess. Thus Spengler proposes that the music of Mozart and "the glad fairyland of Moorish columns that seem to melt in air'' are contemporary because they express the golden flowering of two comparable cultures (Western and Middle Eastern). In Western culture (which Spengler regards as entirely separate from Greco-Roman), Cecil John Rhodes's campaign to exploit Africa is made equivalent to Caesar's foray into Gaul. Both mark the start of expansionist drives that Spengter sees as the beginning of the culture's final decline...
Donated to the city by former Governor and Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman, the zoo is a brightly colored fairyland that is designed to make adults feel just a little bit as if they were intruding in somebody else's territory (see color). A grownup must be accompanied by a child to get past the moppet-height turnstile (admission: 10?). The coin-operated dispensers for animal food are knee-high, and the waste receptacles are painted to look like enormous green and yellow frogs (FEED ME PAPER) and big brown bulldogs (I EAT ANYTHING...