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...work of Kandinsky, Feininger and Marc bring us to the realm of serious struggle with angles of vision. The myth-like atmosphere of Marc's painting, dominated by great blue horses, does not conceal the disintegration of simple planes...
...captains when they began to wonder what had happened to the potatoes. But as winter wore on and Providence seemed to provide only for Nannarella, the others grew suspicious. At last, her archrival, a tall, handsome ruffian named Gigi, sent some of his subjects to infiltrate Nannarella's realm. "Gigi is finished anyway," they told her. "If you let us have some potatoes, we'll come over to you." Soon afterward, when she saw one of the would-be defectors in deep confab with Gigi himself, Nannarella knew she had been tricked...
...undetermined portion of the Harvard undergraduate body, the prospect of getting up early to prepare breakfast for 20 people is so unattractive that it is instinctively relegated to the realm of things that go bump in the night. Yet the recent report of the Overseers' Committee to Visit Harvard College points toward cooperative life as a foreseeable replacement for the relatively idyllic existence in the Houses...
...civil service, including two gendarmes, to carry out his orders. As virtual dictator, French-speaking General Bolle might well have exerted a tyrannical sway over the 704 German-speaking woodcutters, dairy farmers, amateur smugglers, refugees and commuters (to nearby towns in Belgium and Germany) who peopled his realm. But General Bolle was not that sort. "They were all good people," he said of his subjects, "and, all in all, they behaved very nicely. That was fortunate for me. If ever I needed gendarmes, they could not have come because they were not permitted to enter my territory. My court...
...miniature railroad. Usually pinched for funds, Bolle conducted government business largely on a cash basis, selling the wood from his forests to Belgian mines for cash and paying cash in turn for the services of neighboring fire departments when trouble struck. Like all independent border states, Bolle's realm was a hotbed of smuggling, and a seized load of contraband often came in handy to balance the books. "Not infrequently," says Bolle, "we confiscated whole truckloads of coffee. We would then sell it and put the proceeds into the budget...