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...Communists said little about Communism, less about Russia. With help from an unexpected quarter, they stirred Up anticlericalism in answer to the Church's anti-Communist campaign. But above all, the Communists talked about the high cost of living. In Rome's working class street, Via Gesú e Maria, a Communist tailor kept his shop open late at night. "The government was pledged to combat inflation," he told neighbors, "yet artichokes cost 70 lire each-artichokes alia Romano, have become artichokes alia signorile [of the rich...
...sound of a horse's hoofs clopping past his father's lonely farm at night, the screaming, exotic peacocks at the neighboring manor house, the 1,200-year-old parish church that still bore, on the sundial over its porch, the Saxon inscription: THIS IS DÆGES SOL MERCA ÆT ILCVMTIDE (This is the day's sun mark at every tide). And when Read was nine years old, a glass jar filled with "black, blind and sinister leeches" was carried upstairs to his dying father's bedroom...
France's renowned Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot showed his study of the ruins of the 900-year-old Abbey at Jumiéges, a Seine village a few miles beyond Normandy's ancient capital, Rouen. Celebrated for its churches, duck pâté, sugar candy made of apples, and for the martyrdom of Joan of Arc, Rouen was the scene of paintings by Pissarro, Guillaumin, and Normandy's almost unknown but excellent Albert Lebourg, who died, paralyzed, at Rouen only 15 years ago. Lebourg's three paintings of the Seine near Rouen were infused with...
Brahms Song Society, Volume I (Alexander Kipnis, bass, Gerald Moore, pianist; Victor: 12 sides). Fourteen of Brahms's best-known Lieder, including the Vier ernste Gesänge, sung by an acknowledged master...
...pound Singles, at 4 o'clock: Paul G. Saurwein '40; Alan L. Percival GES; Colles C. Stowell '39; and Douglas B. Auffmordt...