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...Muse & Duse. D'Annunzio's manner of speech and dress was copied everywhere. Women tried to behave like his heroines, and competed for symbol status as his bedmates. Intellectuals, of course, were the main victims of D'Annunzio's style, which according to Rhodes was "like that of Venetian glass, redundant and stuffed with reminiscences of Greek and Roman splendor. pseudo-Biblical, pseudomystical." A whole generation of Italian youth accepted his vision of life as an opera with bogus lyrics but real swords. Filippo Marinetti, founder and chief exhibitionist of the crackpot futurist cult (he later...
...MERRY MUSE (317 pp.)-Eric Linklater-Harcourt, Brace...
...fulfill Berenson's dream of making / Tatti a humanistic-studies center for scholars of all nations. Next year Harvard hopes to begin sending up to 20 scholars at a time to the 40-room villa, which Berenson called "a library with living rooms attached," and there let them muse amid the old man's 50,000 books, his Renaissance paintings, fastidious furnishings and vast formal gardens. But carrying out the scheme, which may include endowment of a new Harvard chair, will take another...
...glimpse of Marianne Moore, the Muse of Brooklyn, looking for all the world like the Good Fairy in a Walt Disney cartoon...
With the Apollo lay two lesser but still important finds: a bronze Muse from the era of Praxiteles and a fifth century marble column with the head of Hermes. Archaeologists speculate that an exporter may have warehoused the statues for shipment to Imperial Rome some time during the Augustan Age. and then lost track of them. At week's end four new finds were reported, including a bronze shield covered with bas-reliefs. Feverish digging continued. The street may yield more still...