Word: maria
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...rich confusion of childhood. "I love Baby the same as Jesus," ten-year-old Penny declares, "and God the same as Mussolini, and Italy and the Fatherland less than God but more than my yellow bear." School is a hodgepodge of religion and Fascism. The children sing Ave Maria with a lily in their right hands; then they bawl out the Fascist hymn, switch the lily to their left hands and give the Roman salute...
...been a machine gunner in the war, and his drawings did to war-weary Germans what Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front did in words. By 1923, he had sold an enormous triptych, Trench, to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne for 10,000 gold marks, or nearly $3,000. Carrying on as lance bearer of the Neue Sachlichkeit (the New Objectivity), Dix went on to influence Max Beckmann and Georg Grosz with his sharp-edged, magical realism that applied the techniques of the old masters to the social misery of the anarchic Weimar Republic...
...short of another fight. In September, after a bloody skirmish, a constitutional-minded faction of the military, headed by General Juan Carlos Ongania, 48, a sensible professional soldier, took power and promised to hold elections in June-even let the Peronistas campaign. The puppet government of President José Maria Guido set out to form a "National Front" that would wed Frondizi's old Intransigent Radical Party (with 18% of the popular vote), the Peronistas (more than 30%), and the Christian Democrats (5%). But alas, as the promised elections drew ever closer, anti-Peronista jitters set in again...
...past few months and is now as good as many professional bands. Their first set was their best: four tunes, all of them good, all of them played slickly and excitingly. Their closing session--two songs from West Side Story--wasn't bad, but those Johnny Richards arrangements, especially Maria, are a little too much for the band at this point. A jazz ballet by Ciji Ware and Dean Stolber, accompanied by Berger's band, closed the concert. The dancing was competent enough, but the choreography was no great shakes, and the performance was much too short for the dancers...
...another matter. 10:30 is a murky book, but in its anti-worldly way it seems to be saying that the two groups of people-the three travelers on the one hand, the murderer and his two victims on the other-are equally inadequate and equally doomed. Both Maria and Pierre admire the murderer for the reckless fury of his act ("We could have arranged a good life for him," says Maria, "and perhaps I would have loved him"), but he lies dead in a field. Maria and Pierre want to love one another, but their torpor is as fatal...