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...Kirkland is in the throes of change. There is a new master--Charles H. Taylor, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Mediaeval History; the Junior common room is about to be soundproofed and renovated; and the University has at long last decided to improve the appearance of the courtyard--shrubs, flower beds, and a Riviera-like sun terrace are contemplated...
Perfume of Exhaust Fumes. Frenchbred Lilly was "just eighteen when I stood (for the first time) at the corner of 34th Street and Broadway" and "breathed in the perfume of exhaust fumes . . . sweeter to me than the headiest essences of the flower fields of France." Few of the natives shared this preference for exhaust fumes, so Lilly was obliged to go to work cultivating the headier essences, and is now a rich, renowned and happily married hatter-"Lilly Dache from 9 to 5 and Mrs. [Jean] Despres from 5 to 9." Both personalities have contributed to this book...
Misery is Buffet's trademark; if there is joy in color, it stays locked in his paintbox, and when he paints a flower, it comes out a dried-up thistle. "It is part of us, our youth of the war years, our youth which cannot escape from the climate of the war," a critic exclaimed several years ago. Buffet, who prefers to go on in glum silence, once explained: "I was eleven when war broke out. The misery of the occupation, the cold, the lack of food, all this has become everyday life to me . . . Even today...
...bravely across the stage, each with one breast bared, as cheers rang out and flags waved. In 1918 the first Folies nude appeared. She was "a delicious blonde." Each evening there was a deep hush, followed by a murmur of admiration when she appeared on stage, transported in a flower-decked chariot and clad only in a crown of flowers and a sparkling smile...
From time to time, the doctrine of interposition was revived (notably by New England, against the War of 1812, and by Wisconsin, in a challenge to the Dred Scott Decision). South Carolina's John C. Calhoun brought the doctrine to its full flower. He gave the back of his hand to numerical majorities, inventing the phrase "concurrent majority," by which he meant the agreement of "each interest or portion of the [national] community." Each group should have a veto power to stop governmental action favored by all the others, much as the U.N. Security Council works-or fails...