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They were a type of American female now all but extinct, young women who aspired, through beauty and wit, to marry rich, famous and fascinating older men. Each got her wish. After a false start with a Hollywood agent, Gloria Vanderbilt made a better (although also temporary) match with Leopold Stokowski. Carol Marcus married William Saroyan and Oona O'Neill discovered lifelong romance with Charlie Chaplin. As this novelistic account makes clear, the three women were as interesting as the men they married. Aram Saroyan, son of the ill-fated Saroyan-Marcus marriage, takes them from their schoolgirl days...
Among the defendants charged with crimes including illegal arrests, torture and murder: ex-Presidents Jorge Rafael Videla, Roberto Viola and Leopold Galtieri, the architect of Argentina's disastrous war with Britain for control of the Falkland Islands, known in Argentina as the Malvinas. Last week, Alfonsin said the trial was "of such importance that in my view it will end 50 years of democratic frustration and national decadence...
When James Joyce wanted to symbolize exile, he did it with a Jew, Leopold Bloom of Ulysses. American Jewish writers did not hesitate to import this conceit, making the Jew-as-outsider one of the durable cliches in the national literature. But the facts of life were quite different from the fiction of alienation. By the end of World War II, the sons and daughters of ghetto immigrants were well on their way to becoming deeply rooted members of the middle class. Their semiofficial arrival can be dated to 1955. That was the year Herman Wouk published Marjorie Morningstar...
...COUNTRY BE PROUD OF HIM! Forkel's patriotic exhortation is inscribed on a plaque attached to the wall of Prince Leopold's castle in Cothen. But someone standing in the run-down Cothen castle courtyard--part of the building is used as a state prison today--would be hard pressed to imagine how Bach could have been inspired by his surroundings. The Saxon plain is as flat as Kansas, its tiny villages grim studies in brown and gray; the ferocious reforming spirits of Lutheranism and Communism have done their work well. Similarly, it is hard to reconcile Luther's tiny...
...memory and perfect pitch, Ormandy rose quickly. In 1931 he scored a triumph with the Philadelphia Orchestra when he substituted for Arturo Toscanini, which led to five seasons as conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony. In 1936 he returned to Philadelphia for two years as co-conductor with the mercurial Leopold Stokowski...