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...American forces based in Europe were mobilized for the event, and 14,000 G.I.s were airlifted across the Atlantic. (Reforger, in fact, is an acronym for return of forces to Germany.) To the north, a special all-NATO defense team battled British and Danish "enemy" troops, while in the Mediterranean the alliance conducted a massive naval exercise, culminating in an amphibious landing along the Turkish coast...
...century, of Henri Matisse, who died in 1954 at the age of 85. The last two decades of his life were increasingly spent on making works in paper. Ensconced in the south of France, first at Nice and later in the town of Vence, the aged sultan of the Mediterranean had his assistants cover sheets of paper with flat, brilliantly hued gouache. He then cut out shapes with scissors, and had these bright silhouettes pasted on a flat paper support. These he called his découpages-"cutouts." "Cutting into color," Matisse memorably observed in 1947, "reminds...
...most rewarding forms of introspection." It is an elegant thought. Aside from fiction, travel is also Durrell's chief literary racket, and he is wonderful at it. His travel books arrive like long letters from a civilized and very funny friend- the prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves. One evening in Sicily, he could look from his hotel balcony and "see the distant moth-soft dazzle of the temples'" at Agrigento. In a little Sicilian town called Chaos, the birthplace of Pirandello, Durrell watched sunlight "worthy of a nervous breakdown by Turner." When a local...
Although he is a connoisseur of Mediterranean islands, Durrell sometimes seems to be laboring as hard as his red tour bus grinding up the mountain switchbacks. The reader must listen to Roberto, a wise and tactful Sicilian guide, discoursing on the first-aid kit aboard the bus; there is a pause while the French ladies buy postcards...
Time has mercifully left many places untouched, including the Mediterranean island of Rhodes, which seems virtually unchanged from the days when it was a medieval cultural center. A center of commerce in the centuries before Christ, Rhodes once housed one of the seven wonders of the world, the magnificent Colossus, which fell in an earthquake in the third century...