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...Premier Shefket Verlaci, a 19-year-old Greek named Vasil Laci Mihailoff fired four wild pistol shots at the King's car. On Mihailoff's person the police later found "futuristic poems" dealing with "love and hatred among farm animals." The Italians promptly dubbed Mihailoff a "poetic maniac" and further claimed that his target had been not the King, but Premier Verlaci...
Hanging directly opposite the Matisse works are selected lithographs from a series entitled "Elles," by the deformed little maniac, Toulouse" Lautree. In many instances, the artist acknowledges his debt to Degas, with whom he spent much time as a student and from whom he continually borrowed methods of technique and presentation and adapted them to suit his own purposes. Toulouse-Lautrec, in his own right, was a genuine artist, one who delved deeply into the earthy, sometimes sordid aspects of life. His brush was strong, his eye was piercing, and in all of his work a sharp feeling of cynicism...
...village dancers with red roses in their hair. When an amused Spanish governor told him he could live in the huge old Moorish palace of the Alhambra, Irving was delighted. He moved in and stayed, imagining the heroic past and only slightly disconcerted by the howls of a maniac who was confined beneath the palace...
...with: "the first six guys in my room get free chocolate malteds." He also invites faculty guest speakers, fills in with programs of popular records. Under the magisterial eye of Dartmouth President Ernest H. Hopkins, Broadcaster Dryfoos has to avoid records like Bruz Fletcher's Nympho-Dipso-Ego-Maniac, or She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor. Keep it clean, the administration warns...
...publicity, partly because its author is the son of novelist Sinclair Lewis. Burton Rascoe hailed it as the literary discovery of the year, but "Time" concluded its review of the hero's attempts to get him self seduced as follows: "Finally, much to everybody's relief, a rich Rympho maniac from Mauhattan takes him in hand, and Crane goes back to college with a mighty superior attitude toward freshmen...