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...would restore her faith and rebuy the future. And Werfel's ironic answer to why Europe has fallen is symbolized in the climax of that pilgrimage, a journey portrayed with a Chaucerian flair for the details which make characters seem real. He shows the Austrians of every class; the nouveau-riche, the poor, the priest, and the salesman--all like Teta seeking blind assurance of happiness beyond life and ignoring the hell on earth. The Pope, himself wracked by physical pain, like them turns his eyes away from the ground. Only the flotsam on the "wave of the future," Werfel...
...Egged on by the tough little kings of the House of Aviz, her explorers (Pedro Alvares Cabral, Tristao da Cunha, Alfonso de Albuquerque, Vasco da Gama, Lourengo de Almeida, et al.) ranged the seas from Greenland to Japan, netted an empire second only to Spain's. Like most nouveau riche nations, 15th-Century Portugal then began to take an interest in art. She carefully coddled a school of Portuguese painters, began a Portuguese Renaissance. Then, in 1581, Philip II of Spain conquered Portugal, and the Portuguese Renaissance died in its primitive stage...
...recently arrived in North America. These are: the Duke of Windsor's onetime flying instructor, Captain Alexander Stratford Cunningham-Reid, who gets $50,000 a year for life from a former wife whom he divorced for adultery; onetime subway engineer Captain Leonard Frank Plugge, who after a nouveau-riche success with International Broadcasting Co. boasted, "I often compare myself to Clive of India-he created a great thing, so have I with my commercial broadcasting!"; and John Roland Robinson, who is chairman of a British Guiana gold-mining company and husband of Maysie Casque, an heiress with Woolworth connections...
...Mayor Nouveau, spying John Roosevelt-or his spitting image-going past in an open carriage, hurried down from his reviewing stand to give the city's distinguished guest a handsome bouquet, and an eloquent French welcome. The lad picked up a bottle of champagne from the carriage floor, squirted it full in his beaming face. While the gushing stream coursed down over the mayor's best suit of clothes, the gay youngster, taking the Battle of Flowers in too literal a sense, seized the proffered bouquet and brought it down vigorously on the donor's head...
Meanwhile, in Cannes Mayor Nouveau reiterated his story: ". . . I regret to say I am certain now it was Mr. Roosevelt." Upshot of the Cannes Battle of Flowers was a deluge of French editorials, night-club skits and radio songs; in the U. S. a comment by John Roosevelt's mother...