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...reefs of Tahiti, Easter is the world's most isolated islet: a tiny (45.5 sq. mi.) blob of wind-scraped lava jutting from the gray Pacific like a roost for passing frigate birds. Yet on its stony surface, dozens of enormous statues, known in local dialect as modi, stand and stare. Some of them rear up to a height of 40 feet; many of them wear a subtle expression that presumably only sophisticated sculptors would attempt or could achieve; the best rank among the greatest sculptures of all time. What men produced these monsters? Where did these men come...
...Peace Corps" is not a Federal project, however, it could hardly be considered an alternative to the draft. And unless selective service requirements are either modi-be willing to join the "Peace Corps." The U.S. is entitled to service, yes. But it is absurd to ask those volunteering for three years of hard duty, at low pay, in a difficult environment to spend time in the Army upon return from the jungle. This is not a matter for argument: young men, except for a very few, simply...
Modigliani's sad and tender Elvira, perhaps depressed at the sight of the dying man painting her, was done in his characteristic arabesque style. By the time he painted this picture, "Modi" no longer had the strength to stagger around Paris with Utrillo. each toasting the other as "the greatest painter in the world" and "the greatest drinker." A few months after he finished the picture the painters, sculptors, poets and models of Montmartre and Montparnasse gathered for his funeral, and an enormous cortege solemnly followed the hearse to the cemetery. All along the road the same policemen...
After some strenuous haggling, M. Schuman announced a cabinet composed of Socialists, Popular Republicans and Radicals (centrists), plus one moderate Independent Republican. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault was kept at his post; the important Ministries of Interior (police) and of Social Affairs (labor) went to Socialists Jules Modi and Daniel Mayer...
Tota fabula iocorum est plena, qua de causa videbitis et professeres doctors et studiosos pueros perpetuo risu pulmones agitare. Histriones autem sunt omnes ad fabulam huius modi agendam aptissimi, nam minima cum difficultate Latine loquuntur, gestus vehementissimos faciunt, etiam saltare possunt. Ille quidem quie et Scaphae et Phanisci partes agit, videtur reapse saltatrix Romana esse. Et qui partes senum agunt, re vera ad similitudinem accedunt, baculis suis innituntur, barbas suas permulcent; qui partes invenum agunt, maxime iuveniles esse videntur--fervidi, ebriost, prodigi. Practerea enm personas et omne proscaenium theatre Romano simillimum spectabitis ac tibias audietis, putabitis ves non Cantabrigiae...