Word: hugo
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GLADYS, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH by Hugo Vickers Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 308 pages...
...friendships, though ardent, usually ended in disappointment. The philosopher Count Hermann von Keyserling begged her to marry him, but she danced mockingly out of reach. The poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who saw in her "something of a lascivious young god in girl's clothes," confessed she caused him "a mysterious and sometimes very painful feeling of needing." Proust, Montesquiou, Rodin, Rilke, Giraudoux and George Moore were all bewildered or enslaved...
...crisis by her involvement with Faith Healer Greet Hofmans, whose help she had sought to cure her semiblind youngest daughter, Maria Christina. Another shock came in 1964; although the House of Orange has been staunchly Protestant for 400 years, Daughter Irene converted to Catholicism in order to marry Carlos Hugo, an exiled Spanish prince. Two years later, Crown Princess Beatrix caused a public outcry by marrying German Diplomat Claus von Amsberg, who had served in the army of the Third Reich and had been a member of Hitler Youth. The bitterest blow of Juliana's reign was the public...
Writing while bringing up children, Le Guin sold her first short story when she was 30 and then began building a stellar reputation among sci-fi fans; her 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness won both a Hugo and a Nebula, science fiction's most prestigious awards. The Farthest Shore (1972) received a National Book Award. As the youngsters went off to school, the author fell into a writing schedule that she still maintains. She goes to her writing room in the house each morning at 9 and sits there for at least four hours, whether ideas...
...erected before dismantling began. Schorske describes this process as both a siege and a mutiny. Disaffected peasants, artisans and Slavs, among others, began massing politically, demanding certainties and absolutes. Taking to the streets, they cared nothing for the hallowed liberal creed: "Wissen macht frei" (Knowledge makes us free). Poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal saw what was happening: "Politics is magic. He who knows how to summon the forces from the deep, him will they follow." All too soon Wissen macht frei was degraded into the cruelly deceptive slogan of Nazi death camps: Arbeit [work] macht frei...