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...Lytton Strachey . . . looked like a caricature of Christ; a limp cadaverous creature, moving feebly, with lank long brown hair and the beginnings of a beard much paler in color, and spasmodic treble murmurs of a voice utterly weary and contemptuous. Obscene was the character written all over...
...Thinner and paler than ever after a month's illness, Evita Perón came back last week to perhaps her greatest triumph. The occasion was the Peronistas' Loyalty Day, celebrating the day in 1945 when Juan Perón was sprung from prison and swept back into power on the shoulders of his "shirtless" supporters. This year the day was dedicated to Evita...
...recurrent nervous disorders. He uses a cobweb-festooned greenhouse on the grounds as his studio. On favorable days when "the light is calm," he arranges still lifes of wild flowers, cherries, beans, clusters of garlic or withered leaves on a potting table, paints them against imaginary landscapes in paler, more wistful colors than his old gay studies of Venice and France. "They are a little sad," says De Pisis gently, "because...
...Line. Togliatti, like the party itself, looked older, paler and far less robust than three years before. "Never mind a few misguided defections," he counseled. "Comrades, we have immense potential allies: the whole Italian proletariat and the population of the Italian South. We will find allies even among the lower echelons of the bourgeoisie, now faced with economic annihilation...
Deer hunters blunderbuss their way through the woods these days bagging an occasional stag, a whiskey flask, and if lucky, a good-natured game warden. But now that athletics have moved indoors, the green felt of the amateur croupier slowly substitutes for the paler verdure of the gridiron, and cards again become the preoccupation of informal undergraduate sports...