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...Rohan." The masters reported their share of cruelties and martyrdoms: but to a much larger extent, the exhibition reflects the courtly dolce vita of an age that, out of fear of the future, idealized the past and hid the present behind a facade of elegance. The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga summed up the period best when he said, "It bore the mixed smell of blood and roses...
...tormented life of the playwright Johan August Strindberg, the darkest time fell between the years 1893 and 1895. The government of his native Sweden-"the land of the nonadult, the disenfranchised, the mutes"-had tried to suppress his work as "blasphemy." Penniless, he settled in Paris with one summer suit to his name, for summer or winter wear. His second marriage was going badly, confirming his obsessive distrust of women who, he said, "admire swindlers, quack dentists, braggadocios of literature, peddlers of wooden spoons-everything mediocre." He himself was close to madness -a shabby, shuffling figure who dabbled in alchemy...
...Bishop of Oslo had refused to marry her to the divorced commoner, but last week Norway's Princess Astrid, 28, followed a torchlight procession into a small, red-brick Lutheran church outside town to wed prosperous Haberdasher Johan Martin Ferner, 33, and to be read out of royalty. The procession, which was led through 10°-below-zero cold by Astrid's sister, Princess Ragnhild (who had married a commoner in the same church seven years before), included uncommon cousins from three European kingdoms, among them a sympathetic Princess Margaret of Britain. Last came Astrid and her father...
...Princess Astrid, 28, has been known to her countrymen as "the sad one." Her sadness began in 1951, when her father, King Olaf V, himself a topnotch sailor, searched for a good hand to sail in Sunday regattas with his daughter. On deck soon came a prosperous Oslo clothier, Johan Martin Ferner, one of Scandinavia's most eligible bachelors but. alas, a commoner. The pair became discreetly inseparable. In 1953 Astrid's older sister, Princess Ragnhild, married a shipowner and sailed off to Rio de Janeiro. Convinced that one commoner in the royal family was enough, Olaf...
...problems of coexistence with Communism and disarmament.) In the emotional drive for unity, the delegates even ignored the well-laid plans of their elders, who had promised certain of the participating denominations (notably the Eastern Orthodox churches) that there would be no celebration of common Communion. Dutch Reformed Theologian Johan nes Hoekendijk, 48, exhorted his young listeners to disregard and rise above their confessional loyalties. "For God's sake, be impatient," he urged. "There will be no movement in the ecumenical move ment unless we are ready to step out of our traditions." Although the assembly's president...