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...MOTHER'S HOUSE (286 pp.)-Julian Gloag-Simon & Schuster...
...Julian Grimau Garcia was 25 and a detective in Madrid when the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936. But he was also a member of the Spanish Communist Party, and his professional police training soon landed him a key job in the Red apparatus. He became chief of "criminal investigations" for Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona, ferreting out supporters of Francisco Franco. Part of Grimau's job was to serve on kangaroo courts, called Chekas (after the onetime initials of the Soviet secret police), which ordered dozens of summary death sentences during the brutal three-year...
Once the teams switched goals at the start of the second half, however, Harvard ran wild. With its powerful front line pushing Dartmouth all over the field, the Crimson finally broke a 0-0 tie when Keith Julian scored on a penalty kick...
...quite rapid succession, Harvard scored two more tries, with Bart Francis, who starred in the scrum, making the first, and Richard Carey accounting for the second. After both tries, Julian converted, each time from difficult angles near the sidelines...
...find words strong enough for Henri Matisse. Even the sensitive Harriet Monroe, editor of the avant-garde Poetry, called his pictures "the most hideous monstrosities ever perpetrated in the name of long-suffering art." As for Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, everyone had a field day. Julian Street's description of it as an "explosion in a shingle factory" became almost a household phrase. Teddy Roosevelt compared it unfavorably to a Navajo rug in his bathroom-which, he thought, was "a far more satisfactory and decorative picture...