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...master of the art. A resident of San Remo, he lives in seclusion with his wife and two daughters, appears in public only to gamble at the tables at the local casino. Characteristically, he has authorized only one photograph for publication-a head shot, with his outspread hand masking his face. At 55, he is highly Prized in Italian literary circles but almost unknown to the general public. Perhaps the most admired of his works is Rien Va, an imaginary diary in which he probes the struggles of one lonely, lost, defiant man in an incomprehensible universe...
...heel to the south. "Lee's plan of battle was simple. He massed his troops upon the east side of this shoe position and thundered on it obstinately to break it ... Unflinching courage and complete discipline of the army of the Potomac repelled the attack . . . The marvellous outspread up on the board of death of dead soldiers and dead animals-of dead soldiers in blue, and dead soldiers in grey-more marvellous to me than anything I have ever seen in war-are a ghastly and shocking testimony to the terrible fight of the Second corps that none will...
...Aeschylean touch of grandeur, like Prometheus's appeal to the elements--was delivered while half kneeling on the Earth. It concludes with that heart-piercing line, "It is not myself, but the life of man I pity." So saying, this Cassandra, pulling her mantle over her face, rushes with outspread arms to the palace doors, blindly throws them open, and disappears without another sound. But Agamemnon's death cries are heard...
From the first word that a gilded aluminum eagle, its outspread wings spanning 35 ft., was to be perched atop the new five-story U.S. embassy in ever-so-British Grosvenor Square, Londoners were all argument and bird calls of their own. "Blatant monstrosity," cried an M.P. Echoed London's Daily Telegraph: "An element of vulgarity." But by last week, when the fierce Yankee bird was hoisted into place, most of the locals allowed that they would probably learn to live with it, though they may still prefer pigeons. A few were even inclined to agree with the embassy...
...During his many motor parades, the President cast his blue eyes and directed outspread arms not only left and right but also up high and around, sweeping in the welcomers perched atop roofs and on balconies, acknowledging the cheers of even the smallest groups. Days after he left, streetcleaners and cops, housewives and bartenders were still chattering about El Viejito Sonriente (The Smiling Old Man) and insisting that he had personally waved to each one of them...