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...year-old daughter Inez, last week wrote Nicola Sacco, condemned to die during the week of August 10. To the child whom he has seen only on her visits to his cell he said: "It was the greatest treasure and sweetness in my struggling life that I could have lived with you and your brother, Dante, and your mother on a neat little farm and learn all your sincere words and tender affection. The same I have wished and love to see for other poor girls and their brothers happy with the mother and father as I dreamed...
Right or Wrong? The Ocotal affair revived last week with greatest virulence the question whether the Administration of U. S. President Coolidge has been right or wrong in its recent dealings with Nicaragua (TIME...
...busy public, that insists upon labeling every genius with a single superlative, likes to peg Beethoven as the "greatest orchestral composer," Schubert "the greatest song writer." Both were German contemporaries, both suffered cruel affliction, neither married. With that the similarity ends. Where Beethoven, the austere, cried out in the music of every man's sorrow, Schubert, the gentle, preferred a lyrical opiate. Where Beethoven, the Master, died amidst reverence in a thunderstorm, Schubert, the unknown, passed away in ignominy. It is said that they met on one occasion when Schubert, struggling against shyness, made bold to visit the leonine...
...Significance of Robinson Jeffers as a poet is, by critical consensus, that of one to rank with the greatest poets of all generations. Homer and Sophocles have not been held too lofty comparisons for him?yet he remains distinctly a product of this continent. Inhuman in his intensity?he says "Humanity is needless"; calls men "the apes that walk like herons"?he repels people who seek comfort in poetry. He takes the race as a starting
Among the greatest single pieces are Ghirlandajo's portrait of Francesco Sassetti (banking partner of de Medici) and his son, seen in his bank at Lyons, against a background of harbor and water front; a Titian representing the Madonna and Infant Christ; Piero di Cosimo's picture of Hylas, Hercules' favorite, discovered in a meadow by water nymphs...