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...John Sloan, Andrew Wyeth, El Greco, Vincent Van Gogh, John Marin, Wassily Kandinsky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Paul Cezanne, Paolo Veronese and Leonardo da Vinci. In addition, the color pages have provided the opportunity to show a wide range of other art forms: from modern church architecture to flower arrangements, from Indian sand painting to luminous sculpture, from 20th century fireworks to Ming ceramics...
Last week, Florentines flocked to the scene of Savonarola's execution to celebrate the sooth anniversary of his birth. A children's choir sang. Nuns convoyed little girls in white dresses who sprinkled flowers where the scaffold once stood. At night, drummers in medieval costume led processions of torch-bearing students past the flower-decked plaque. Orated Mayor Giorgio la Pira, a Christian Democrat: "Fra Girolamo Savonarola characterized Florence . . . as a firm guardian of the spirit of political liberty and as an eternal expression of fraternity and loving-kindness between...
...HIDDEN FLOWER (307 pp.)-Pearl Buck-John...
...Then she beckoned her sister to come up. Patiently, she went down the column of words, asking her sister each one. The younger girl got most of them wrong. Gently, they went over and over them again. Stewguts never showed impatience. Sometimes, she let her sister 'pick a flower.' I watched fascinated, listening to the girls' voices, rising and falling, in question and answer, with the greatest softness, until, with Stewguts' help, almost all the flowers had been 'picked...
...Metropolitan Club, just a block from Lafayette Square where Andrew Jackson, prancing above the flower beds on his bronze horse, perpetually takes off his hat to the White eat that official Washington likes best to be seen eating lunch. There, almost every day when he's in town, promptly at 1 arrives a spare, neatly dressed individual with dark hair and eyes and the restrained impatience of manner of a man whose every moment is very, very valuable. In his 63 rd year, Walter Lippmann still looks the precocious young deep thinker of the days...