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...magazine opens with "Legendary Lives: In unique and varied ways they have extended the boundaries of experience." This is perhaps the most discomfiting segment in the issue; this is also the first and last time you are going to see the biographies of Clare Boothe Luce, Lucretia Mott and Janis Joplin on the same page. The next section, "A Share of the Power," includes portraits of women who have succeeded in traditionally masculine areas: politics, publishing, business, etc. The expressions of these women are frighteningly similar mixtures of ambition, confidence, and cold strength...
...Lucretia Austin Cincinnati
FRANCISCO CENCI (a sixteenth centaurs Roman nobleman who arranged the death of two of his sons and raped his daughter has intrigued a safety of authors including Stendahl. Shelley, and in this century. Antonin Artaud Beatrice, his daughter, added by her step-mother Lucretia and her remaining brothers, avenged the Counts crimes by hiring two assassins who killed him driving nails through his eye and throat. The plot was soon discovered and Lucretia. Beatrice, and her brother Giacomo were beheaded after Pops Clement VII deed their-piers for pardon...
...dreamer than a play right. Many of his ideas about theater seem all defined and poorly suited to the stage. His ritualistic approach fosters confusion because we're often not sure where reality ends and mysticism takes over. This is particulars evident in his characterizations. Beatrice and Lucretia are unquestionably human, but the Count is more of an mearnation of an evil force. He is a myth-like figure and like the gods of classical mythology, he feels no guilt for his malice. If anyone is to repent for his acts, he reasons at must be God, for God made...
AFTER reading with Charles Eliot Norton's Dante Society and talking with Crawford about Italian writing, Mrs. Jack felt the need to surround herself with original Italian oils. Her pipeline to Italian art was filled by Bernard Berenson; The Tragedy of Lucretia by Botticelli was one of her first investments in her Italian art venture...