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Born. To deposed King Michael of Rumania, 31, who abdicated under Communist pressure in 1947, and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma, 29: their third child, third daughter; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Weight...
...human passion. An earlier Moravia novel now published in the U.S. for the first time, The Fancy Dress Party, shows him in still another manner; it seems a deliberate attempt to recreate that gay mixture of political satire and opera bouffe which make Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma a masterpiece...
...Scala heard her then and yawned. Maria Callas thinks she knows why: "I have a funny kind of voice, and often people don't like it the first time they hear it. One has to hear me more and more." After singing in the Italian operatic "sticks"-Parma, Florence, Rome-she finally got a chance at La Scala when leading Soprano Renata Tebaldi fell sick...
...Communists lost 1,042 of the 1,959 communities which they had controlled, among them some of Italy's most important cities-Florence, Turin, Pisa, Genoa, Venice. Still in Communist hands: Bologna, Siena, Modena, Parma. Chiefly responsible for their defeat in the cities: Italy's new electoral law which automatically gives the majority party in a community two-thirds of the seats on the town council, instead of parceling them out proportionally as before (TIME, June...
Unfinished as it is, Lucien Leuwen is a true coin of Stendhal's genius; only the edges want milling. It ranks almost with The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma, the great novels which Stendhal wrote before & after it; and it marks the mid-point in his development from a powerful psychologist who couldn't help laughing at the people he created, to a deadly satirist who couldn't stop creating the people he laughed...