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...International Style now began to rebel against it. "I became bored with glass boxes. Of course, I love my own house, but I no longer find it interesting to draw straight lines." Johnson began to look for inspiration anywhere-the ancient Greeks, the baroque masters, the Orient, the peasant cottages of Europe. "We are all rebelling," says he, "but we have all picked different ways to rebel against the International Style. I think I am the only one who is history-oriented...
Coco acquired taste when a rich young socialite discovered the pretty, apple-cheeked, orphaned peasant girl in the Auvergne, took her away to share life on his estate and the society of his wealthy friends...
...orphaned peasant girl was rich, and delighted in her money because, she said, it "rang with the sound of freedom." She wore a $75,000 string of pearls to enhance her own designs. To achieve dramatic effects she often mixed these with costume jewelry which she introduced to the world of high fashion. Quick tongued and beautiful ("Like a little black swan," said Cocteau; "like a little black bull," said Colette), Coco had one love affair after another, though she never married. One of her most persistent admirers was the Duke of Westminster, who employed three couriers running between London...
...pondered Fidel, Che also pondered the objectives of the revolution he was fighting. Out of his own catch-as-catch-can Marxist reading, Che proceeded to map out Cuba's first true, peasant-based social revolution. He plotted total destruction of the old political and economic system, under which U.S. investors owned one-third of Cuba's largest crop (sugar), and the country was run by a tough and crooked former army sergeant, Fulgencio Batista. Che proposed to nationalize industry and agriculture, to reorganize that traditional prop of Cuban political power, the army, and to cut Cuba...
When Nikos Kazantzakis was buried in Crete three years ago, a tall, unknown peasant stepped suddenly from the crowd, seized the coffin and lowered it single-handed into the grave. It was a giant's gesture which the dead man himself might have planned. For the author who wrote a brilliant modern sequel to The Odyssey and stirred the world with Zorba the Greek believed that man's destiny is determined by his own acts in the face of life, death...