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Klee's whimsy is in the realm of fantasy but never obscurity. Turn the painting in a vertical position and the "areas of green, yellow and blue" show a self-portrait...
...crisis, but guarded references to it became more and more frequent in the press and in Parliament. With the nation's business marking time under a caretaker government, largely because no new Premier could be found courageous enough to face a showdown with his Queen, Juliana's realm, like her throne, was in a state of suspense. "If somebody doesn't take some action," said one worried government official, "you can be sure that we'll soon have both divorce and abdication...
...autocrats brought to power by World War II was a stern but kindly old gentleman who had no claim to kingship, no ambition to tyranny, and no practice in governing. His realm was a miniature collection of former German areas annexed by Belgium and strung out along its border like charms on a bracelet. Under a six-power agreement signed in Paris in 1949, these territories, 7,789½ acres in all, were placed under a special and independent administration, pending a final peace treaty. The man chosen to head that administration was Major General Paul Bolle, grizzled and nearsighted...
...there lived a lonely emperor in old Cathay. His wife had died in the bloom of her youth, and he was inconsolable. In the morning when his ministers brought him the leading questions of the day, in the evening when they brought him the fairest maidens of the realm, the emperor only sighed and sent them away. Only in his music could he find surcease, and with his lute he whiled the sorrowing hours away. Aha. thought an ambitious general, if I can find the woman who can charm away his grief, my star will rise...
...neatly as his sovereign's head. But with the agility of his 20th century namesake, he snatched up the pen as quickly as he dropped the sword, wrote Divi Britannici, a monarchical history of England. In its lament for the plight of the Cromwellian realm, one hears the first rumblings of the famed Churchillian rhetoric: "The two great luminaries of law and gospel were put out: such as could not write supplied the place of judges, such as could not read, of bishops. Peace was maintained by war, licentiousness by fasting and prayer...