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...footnote to your story on New Hampshire's Governor Samuel W. Powell Jr. [May 4], you state that Abraham Lincoln lost three elections. I should like to point out that only one of these was by direct vote of the people. I refer to his defeat in 1832, the first time he ran for public office (Illinois state legislature...
Mystery & Universality. In a flurry of experimentation. Braque produced the first paper collage, mixed sand into his paint to achieve new textures, introduced lettering into his pictures to suggest themes of everyday life. He was so inventive, in fact, that Picasso began to refer to him as "Vilbur." after the American Wilbur Wright. After World War I. in which he was badly wounded. Braque became more contemplative. His new paintings were relaxed: the rigid geometry, finally uncaged, became fluid...
...influence of the National Conference of Christians and Jews upon our church leaders." Mrs. Gaillot insisted that she would take the matter to the Pope himself. But there was small chance of a hearing in Rome. Both the Vatican and the apostolic delegate in Washington said they would refer her complaints right back to New Orleans' spiritual leader; and L'Osservatore Romano, quite obviously reflecting the views of the Holy See, praised Rummel's actions as "admirable...
Yawns & Sneezes. In Europe, indeterminate music is now all the rage. Some composers refer to it in its milder forms as "aleatory," a term based on the Latin word "alea" (a game of dice), once thought to be derived from the word for knucklebone, out of which primitive dice were made. Although Composer Cage was preaching the aleatory doctrine eleven years' ago (in his Imaginary Landscape No. 4, he conducted an ensemble that played twelve radios simultaneously), the big boom in music-by-chance has come only recently; summer festivals at Donaueschingen and Darmstadt perform it with enthusiasm...
...coarseness and candor that Twain liked to believe was typical of aristocratic talk of the period, he should write it out in a letter to Twichell. The good pastor, predictably, laughed his head off. After keeping the letter in his pocket for four years so that he could refer to it in moments of despondency (memories of Bushnell, possibly?), he sent it along to John Hay. When Hay recovered from hilarious convulsions he had the parody published--anonymously (the manner of publication preferred both by Hay and his friend Henry Adams for their own fictions...