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Emma was married to Thomas Hardy for 38 years.* Her style as a literary wife is suggested by the remark she made about the admiring ladies who thronged about her husband in London after he became famous: "They are the poison," said Emma complacently. "I am the antidote." Emma never let Hardy forget that his literary reputation was vastly inflated, and after she failed to talk him out of publishing that "vicious" novel Jude the Obscure, she lost virtually all interest in her husband's writings. But at the same time her interest in her own innocuous poems continued...
...TIME erred. The remark was made by another Indian official and mistakenly attributed to Nehru because of garbled transmission from New Delhi...
Prime Minister Nehru did not at any time make this remark attributed by you to him. In fact, the Prime Minister on several occasions expressed shock and sincere sympathy. In a nationwide broadcast on Nov. 23, he said: "President Kennedy's passing away is a terrible tragedy for the world, and our popple in India share with deep sorrow the grief and general feeling all over the world, especially in the U.S. To the people of the U.S., who have lost suddenly and so tragically their great leader, we offer our respectful sympathy." JANKI GANJU Principal Press Attache Embassy...
...Greek and everything is all Greek to him. He lives against the azure sky that reflects the Mediterranean, surrounded by olive groves that mantle mountains where the nobility of man has been the artist's ideal since the days of Polyclitus. Capralos does not mean by his remark to compare himself to the ancients; he aims at modern work while remaining tied to the ancient tradition...
...inky wiggling of a live baby octopus, fiery battle scenes with paint laid on thick enough to thrill a pastry chef. Of course, there was also his super-surrealism, typically in GALACIDALACIDEOXYRIB ONUCLEICACID (Homage to Crick and Watson), a title so long that it resorts to a parenthetical remark. In a slick equation of Botticelli and biochemistry, Dali portrays a translucent God lifting the dead Christ into heaven, superimposed on the molecular structure of life-bearing DNA or deoxynbonucleic acid, the discovery of which led to Nobel Prizes for Drs. Francis Crick and James D. Watson...