Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jilted Lover. A proud man from a proud clan, Henry Adams never quite reconciled himself to the fact that he and his were through setting up White Housekeeping. He adopted the tone of the jilted lover and always spoke through the mask of failure...
...reliefs accompany the first two essays, "The Spirit of the Middle Ages" and "Medieval Life"; the third is illustrated by early Renaissance masterpieces of Giotto and Botticelli. Later comes "The Age of Exploration" with its hopeful, half-empty maps, Vasco da Gama in cap & gown, and a grinning mask which Montezuma presented to Cortes. The section on "The Protestant Reformation" includes a caricature doodled by a seminarian of his instructor, one John Calvin. The world's first modern observatory helps illustrate "The Dawn of Modern Science." Watteau's dimpled courtesans bring "The Age of Enlightenment" to life...
...evening last week a woman clerk, who had just started home after her day's work at a San Gabriel, Calif, supermarket, saw a frightening apparition climb out of an automobile at the rear of the store. Its face was covered by a black mask, dark goggles and a gas respirator. It wore a black helmet decorated by three metal antennas and a skull & crossbones, was dressed in a black shirt, black pants, black boots and black gloves. It carried a shotgun, wore two bone-handled .38s on its hips and a bandoleer of shotgun shells...
...apparition strode through a back door of the supermarket. The woman ran for a telephone and called the police. The masked figure had been robbing suburban Los Angeles supermarkets for ten months, had gotten away with more than $50,000. Anywhere else a man in a space suit would have attracted attention; but in Southern California eccentrics were so common that supermarket clerks refused, until too late, to get excited at the appearance of a Man from Mars. But this time the police arrived just as the apparition was leaving the store, clutching $13,675 in a canvas bank...
...Durante lowers his voice to a hoarse throb and murmurs, "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are." Who Mrs. Calabash may be, nobody knows, and Jimmy won't say. His friends like to believe that his airwave salute to her symbolizes the Durante character: grotesque tenderness beneath the mask of a public clown...