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...contemporaries agreed that Pushkin was great, but posterity has made it nearly unanimous. Called "the founder of Russian literature," compared to Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Pushkin in his own day seemed more Byronic than anything else. So avidly did he pursue his rakehell career that it seems a miracle he had any energy left for writing, that he lasted as long as he did (38 years). Pushkin was born into the old nobility, but he also had black blood: his maternal great-great-grand father was an Abyssinian ras. Pushkin's parents were social, impecunious, improvident. They paid...
...show that madness may breed genius, the neurologists, headed by Dr. Abraham Myerson of Boston, cited the following admired men, more or less mad children of more or less mad parents: Hans Christian Andersen, Balzac, Beethoven, Bonaparte, Byron, Frederick the Great, Michelangelo, Newton, Poe, Swedenborg, Swift, Tolstoy...
...famed waters. Popes with gallstones gave the springs of Fiuggi their fame and today its bottled waters may be had in almost any city of the world. Last week learned Italians, sympathizing with their great Marshal, turned to the Italian encyclopedia, scanned the famous letter in which great Artist Michelangelo described how he was cured at Fiuggi in the year 1549 as Marshal Badoglio may well be cured. Wrote Michelangelo: "I am immensely better. For about two months I have been drinking morning and evening water from a spring about forty miles from Rome, which breaks the stone...
...largest mural finished under PWAP. Should a reader's attention wander, he would be instantly confronted by brilliantly colored likenesses of such assorted characters as Boccaccio, Gautama Buddha, Mayor Carter of Santa Monica, Adam & Eve, Cinemactress Gloria Stuart, Bach, Michael Faraday, Senator John P. Jones, Leo Carrillo, Michelangelo, Confucius, and Viola Player Samuel Lifschey. All this was the effort of Stanton Macdonald Wright, co-founder 22 years ago of the Synchromist movement in art, to wind Man's Imaginative and Inventive Development round four walls and over an information desk...
...nude girl with red roses in her blonde hair, placed the original painting in the early 16th Century, thought it might be the work of an old master. Commented Mr. Woolley: "I think he's unduly excited about it. When I saw him last he thought it was a Michelangelo...