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...developed of ideologies. He disliked the Belgian monarchy and went so far as to make an etching entitled Doctrinal Nourishment, 1889, showing church and state authorities feeding the people with the King's feces. He did not, however, go quite so far as to refuse the Order of Leopold in 1903, or the barony that the next King of Belgium offered him in 1929. At root, he hated authority because it would not let him in, and loved it when it did. Success assuaged him but slackened the mainspring of his art. After the turn of the century, with...
...Indeed, the Kremlin had long and loudly campaigned for the release of Corvalán, who headed Latin America's largest Communist Party and holds the Order of Lenin, the Soviets' top peacetime decoration. "Corvalán is a splendid prize for the Kremlin," observed British Sovietologist Leopold Labedz. "He can now be set up as the highly visible and potent center for Communist opposition to the Chilean junta." Bukovsky, on the other hand, had proved to be a considerable embarrassment to the Kremlin as the symbol of harsh Soviet repression of dissidents...
...true, a wealth of gifts available for the unreconstructed bauble bestower. A woman might consider giving her man the ultimate desk: a T-shaped, 7-ft.-long slab of teak, rosewood or African kevazenga; it rests on a mirrored aluminum pedestal and delivery of $10,000 to Lehigh-Leopold Furniture Co. Or she may pin her love on his chest, in the form of a $3,000, one-of-a-kind Countess Mara necktie, described as a "blossoming 14-karat gold rose studded with genuine brilliantly faceted diamonds, mounted on imported silk-cut velvet...
...Berlioz, Queen Mab Scherzo; Respighi, Feste Romane; Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Strauss, Death and Transfiguration; Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique): The Philadelphia Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting (5 LPs, RCA). When Toscanini made these recordings in 1941-42 with the orchestra Leopold Stokowski had built, it was astonishing, then as now, to note how readily the musicians yielded their lush sound and fat phrasing to the brilliant, transparent, sharply contoured style that Toscanini favored. The resulting interpretations are still splendid to hear-spacious, virtuosic, imbued with an exceptional inner calm...
...Died. Leopold Ruzicka, 89, Swiss chemist whose research into the makeup of hydrocarbons won him the 1939 Nobel Prize; in Zurich. Ruzicka was the first to synthesize the male hormone, testosterone, and he identified the various chemical compounds that produce the distinctive flavor of the raspberry. The artificially fruit-flavored foods that abound today are a result of his findings...