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...Twentieth Century galvanized by rare images of the living past. Viewers caught glimpses they had half forgotten or never seen before: newborn Fascist babies squirming wholesale on a nursery table; the bare-chested dictator on a ski slope; his mistress, Claretta Petacci, in a silken boudoir; an anonymous GI mugging in victory from the famous balcony of the Palazzo Venezia...
...Paradise, an ex-GI college student, writer, and all-American Beat Generator, is the narrator of Kerouac's tale. On the Road begins, naturally enough, with Sal on Route 6 outside New York, hitch-hiking to Denver...
...voyager, Paul joined the Norwegian Merchant Marine when he finished high school in New Jersey. During the war, he was in one of the last units of the US Cavalry and was shipped to India, China and Burma. After the war he studied painting in Spain under the GI Bill for a couple of years. He doesn't have time for much of his own work any more. "I get more of a kick showing off other people's work. And really, I don't care whether someone buys a painting or not, but I'd rather...
...their initiation fee. Hence in 1952 some 83% of Equity members were unemployed. The ranks of those aspiring to frame and bright lights had been swollen by a large crop of college students interested in the arts and by thousands of veterans who had studied dramatic arts under the GI Bill...
...Peccant Peck Sir: Apropos of the Catholic "venial kiss" discussion | Oct. 8]: one imagines countless exchanges like this on Irish lanes: "Gi! Said a me lad a to a venial lass, kiss." "To Hell wi' ye, son. I kiss mortal, like this...