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...highbrow writers, a handsome, American-born Italian princess nearing 72 is the closest thing to a patron saint in the world today. When they visit Rome (and that is the thing for them to do these days), they vie for invitations to her home, a gloomy Renaissance palazzo with an irresistibly highbrow address: 32 Via delle Botteghe Oscure (Street of the Dark Shops). There they get fruit juice and cakes, plenty of rarefied talk about writers and writing, and lots of sympathy. The Princess Marguerite Caetani's interest in their work is as genuine as her 800-year...
...world has paid scant attention to the princess and her highbrow Botteghe. U.S. circulation is under 2,000, much less in other countries, and even the rich princess has had to sell some of her paintings to keep it going. But Marguerite Caetani is an old hand at backing forlorn literary causes. For ten years she ran France's distinguished quarterly Commerce, and her home in Paris, like the palace in Rome, was a gathering place for writers. Her distant cousin, T. S. Eliot, warned her not to start Botteghe, told her it was tough enough to back...
...many of Europe's politically sophisticated intellectuals attracted to Communism? Last week Le Figaro's highbrow, anti-Communist Editorialist Raymond Aron offered his own wry reason: "Intellectuals want, more than anything else, to be taken seriously, and Communism is the sole party to grant them any importance-if only by putting them in prison. It is the United States which takes intellectuals the least-seriously-even while paying them fortunes...
...contains no baptismal font and performs no marriages. Instead, its 20-odd priests in residence handle a tough, three-part assignment: 1) administering (under Father Desmond Boyle) the 903 members of the Jesuit Order in England, Scotland, Wales, Rhodesia and British Guiana, 2) publishing (under Father Philip Caraman) a highbrow monthly called The Month and extending the ministry to the literate with lectures, newspaper articles, radio broadcasts, etc., 3) preaching and instructing converts...
...second year in a row, Britain played host to a troupe of Soviet culture missionaries. Last year's troupe stressed Soviet musicianship in romantic and contemporary works, and had a definitely highbrow pitch. Last week, in London and the provinces, the 1953 visitors were showing something for everybody...