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...Mono Lisa's Smile. From his briefcase dour West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer produced a pile of secret German intelligence documents describing the military build-up of Russia and its satellites; he listed fact & figure evidence of "the tragic disparity" between Eastern power and Western ability to resist it. "I have been watching these things for many years," warned Adenauer, "and I must say there has never been a threat so great from the East. There is no time to lose...
Research, too, is an important function. Every man who has the ill-fortune to collapse with mononucleosis (62 in '51) gets Dr. Andrew Contratto's pamphlet on the disease as part of his Stillman reading-matter. Mono was unknown here until twenty years ago when laboratory blood tests began showing a startling breakdown of white blood corpusles, among other things...
...remarkable recovery time of mono patients (about two weeks, compared to the usual two or three months convalescence) is due to the quick action of University physicians in diagnosing and treating the disease. But speedy recovery is not restricted to mononucleosis. Recent figures show that patients spend an average of 3.7 days in the infirmary where in the 20's the average stay was 6.9 days...
...seemed supremely unconcerned. "Plagiarism?" he snorted. "Just my own original method of using images from my dreams and from some souvenir of long ago. I myself will discover hundreds of so-called plagiarisms in my work . . . The cover of my latest book is a collage of Leonardo's Mono, Lisa. I have no less than six paintings strictly derived from Millet's Angelus. Let my enemies gloat . . . To imitate is not important. To be inimitable is most important. I remain one of the greatest living painters...
Subtlety & Superiority. One critic who saw nothing strange about the Mono, Lisa was the 16th century's Giorgio Vasari, who praised the painting for its naturalism. "In this head," Vasari wrote, "every peculiarity that could be depicted by the utmost subtlety of the pencil has been faithfully reproduced . . . Mona Lisa was exceedingly beautiful, and while Leonardo was painting her portrait, he took the precaution of keeping someone constantly near her, to ... amuse her, to the end that she might continue cheerful...