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...marks of Stendhal's particular brand of greatness, such as his sharp, plain, declarative manner of speaking and his genius for showing the depths of one character by pointing up the shallowness of another. But Lamiel is not a masterpiece, for the same reason that a human skeleton is not a human being. It is a book that Stendhal fans and students of novel writing might well read over & over to find out how a novel grows. But Stendhal said of it: "The great and actual object is laughter"; and the true measure of Lamiel's incompleteness...
...Vatican Library-as a clerk, filing index cards. He stretched his $80-a-month salary, on which he supported a wife and four daughters, by translating from the German at a nickel a page. Meanwhile, he kept in touch with his fellow Christian Democrats, and when Mussolini fell, a skeleton Christian party was ready. By April 1945 De Gasperi was Italy's Foreign Minister; by year's end he was named Premier. The first thing De Gasperi did was to get a salary advance so he could buy a good blue suit...
...last three of the Center's nine semi-secret government projects are due to be completed this summer after which the Center will operate with a skeleton staff. Contracts have been completed with the Air Force, the Army's Munitions Board, the Commerce Department, and the Office of Defense Mobilization...
...Skeleton Force...
...Center is "slowing down" because over a year the government's demands have lessened, Clark explained. "We will keep a skeleton office force and the know-how and thus always be ready to expand," he added...