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Giovanni Bellini's Feast of the Gods has long been a puzzle as well as a masterpiece. The gods look more drunk than divine. Vesta, protector of virgins, lies dozing in one corner of the picture while Priapus fiddles with her skirt. A blowsy Ceres helps Apollo hoist cup to lip. Neptune is paired off with Gaea, who holds a quince -the symbol of marriage. Bacchus appears as a child, and his foster father Silenus looks more like a slender ascetic than a roly-poly satyr. Generations of art scholars have wondered...
...health limits Matisse's pleasures almost entirely to his work. He sees almost no one except the handsome Russian woman, Livia Delectorskaya, who has been his chief model, housekeeper, secretary and protector for 15 years. Livia rounds up other models for the master-a hard job in provincially prudish Vence. Sometimes she returns with the 26-year-old girl who is the town's one harlot, who describes Matisse as "a wonderfully sweet old man, always chattering while I pose." Matisse avoids fellow artists ("I can't see many people nowadays"). But the old man loves...
They confiscated the estate of Baron George Daubek, central European representative of International Business Machines and husband of New York Metropolitan Opera Singer Jarmila Novotna; they announced that Daubek no longer had "an open protector" in the Czech cabinet. They did not say who the protector had been. The late Jan Masaryk had played piano accompaniments for Novotna on U.S. recordings of Czech folk songs...
Making his third address since returning from the Communist-dominated republic, Professor Matthiessen declared that the Communist party in Czechoslovakia could be treated "like any other party." The Czechs regard Russia as their ally and protector while they consider France "the real traitor," he added...
...week their schools were closed, for no pupils would attend. Bazaars and fairs shut down. Panicky villagers feared that 108 children would be kidnaped for sacrifice.* They picked 108 as the proper figure because that is sacred to Hindus. Rama, for instance, one of the incarnations of Vishnu, the Protector, offered his wife Sita 108 lotuses, each with 108 petals...