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...were prize exhibits in the Communist cultural front-Malraux, already a rising novelist (Man's Fate) and touring revolutionary. Regler, a noted refugee writer living in Paris (he had fled Germany just after the Nazis seized power in 1933). Cultured Comrades Regler and Malraux had to listen while Maxim Gorky key-noted a writers' jamboree with piffle that reached the lower depths of unreason. Gorky's dialectical materialist account of Greek mythology defied parody, e.g., Icarus was not a parable of hubris but a prototype of the Soviet rocket, and poor God himself "an artificial summing...
...their own. Villages had special local deities. Chichicastenango Indians lit candles in the church, then offered candles, liquor and even crosses on a three-foot-high stone figure of the pagan god Pascual-Abaj on a hill behind the church. Santiago Atitlán's favorite was Maximón, a raffish deity with four hats and an uninhibited libido...
...last victory. Buttressed by Spanish priests who insist on orthodox Catholicism, Guatemala's hierarchy is finally determined to root out paganism and do away with the God of the Hills, the God of the Plains, and even that leering old devil who posed as a saint, Maxim...
...believe in angels than in Eloise, the wildly implausible moppet who usually lives at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel with her nanny, dog Weenie and turtle Skipperdee. Two years ago her devoted biographers, Nightclub Comic Kay Thompson and Illustrator Hilary Knight, described how she cut a rug at Maxim's in Paris. In this, her fourth appearance, Eloise dons raccoon coat and diplomatic pout to travel to Moscow, where Mommy has some vague connections with Americanski Embassyski. And here is the thing of it, as she would say: never before have those Red squares been exposed to anyone...
Dining at Maxim's in Paris on her tenth wedding anniversary, high-strung Operatic Soprano Maria Callas, 35, made a pronouncement between helpings of selle d'agneau à la Callas. Manhattan-born Singer Callas attributed most of her professional success to the offstage support of her Milan tycoon husband, Giovanni Battista Meneghini, 64: "When I met him I was the most ridiculous singer of Italy, and he, a wealthy industrialist who owned 20 building-material plants, said, 'You have the most beautiful voice in the world,' and-thanks to his tenacity, his persuasion and his constant...