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Odokara had come to the U.S. in spite of warnings from his father, 97-year-old ceremonial leader of the idol-worshiping Omenani religion. "Christians," scoffed the father, "don't practice what they preach...
Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac is one French painter who seems to care for neither time nor tides. The critics of a generation ago hailed him for what he was -a master of the impressionist landscape, a distinguished follower of his idol, Cezanne. And Segonzac has kept right on painting that way. It was no way to have a flashy vogue; critics and the public were soon preoccupied with a far more revolutionary crew. But over the years, Segonzac's singlemindedness has had its effect. Last week, three of his latest pictures were on view in Paris' Salon...
...very things in his work that have set the conventional-minded to spluttering with outrage have made Cummings a writ ers' writer and a particular idol of the young. A few years ago, when Cummings went to Bennington College in Vermont to give a reading, the entire audience of girls rose as he mounted the platform and chanted in unison one of his poems...
...celebrated U.S. outpouring of grief over a popular idol's death, the mourning in Manhattan over Rudolph Valentino in 1926, attracted a mere...
...Alps and Apennines. On the lap from Rome to Rocca di Papa, all uphill, Coppi, his legs pumping like pistons, spurted from eighth to second place. From then on, Coppi's fervent fans hysterically paved his way with flowers, sloshed buckets of water on their sweating idol, painted slogans along the route ("Fausto, you are the only king left...