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...distance between the rulers' unlimited power and the cowed abasement of the poor and weak. The seeming paradox that the Communists cherish this "imperialistic" treasure-trove is a tribute not to their good taste, but to their psychological astuteness. They recognized that the Kremlin housed in its bejeweled splendor a tactic of tyranny as useful to the commissars as to the czars...
...everywhere. Women tried to behave like his heroines, and competed for symbol status as his bedmates. Intellectuals, of course, were the main victims of D'Annunzio's style, which according to Rhodes was "like that of Venetian glass, redundant and stuffed with reminiscences of Greek and Roman splendor. pseudo-Biblical, pseudomystical." A whole generation of Italian youth accepted his vision of life as an opera with bogus lyrics but real swords. Filippo Marinetti, founder and chief exhibitionist of the crackpot futurist cult (he later proposed kidnaping Pope Benedict XV in an airplane and dropping him into the Adriatic...
...think that by any splendor of architecture-any height of stories-you can atone to the mind for the loss of the aspect of the roof...
Seat &Refuge. History has also contributed to the quiet splendor of Poblet. Being fairly inaccessible, the region was the last Moorish stronghold in Catalonia. Don Ramon Bereguer IV, count of Barcelona, drove out the last Moors in 1149, immediately founded Poblet as a memorial and an example to the fierce mountaineers of the region. Within the next half century, Poblet became a geographical and spiritual fortress of the combined houses of Barcelona and Aragon, and the resting place of their heroes. A century later, Poblet was a focal point of Catalonia's losing war with Castile. Philip II, Hapsburg...
...Mine. Few Americans realize the full splendor of Northern Renaissance because German and Flemish art has been far less widely dispersed than the Italian. Its major museum collections lie off the standard London-Paris-Rome tourist track. One of the best is at Munich, built up over centuries by the dukes and princes of Bavaria and now sheltered in the austerely classical Alte Pinakothek. The museum itself was completed by King Ludwig I in 1836. Allied bombs destroyed it in 1944, but the collection had been safely stored away in scattered castles and an Austrian salt mine. Rebuilt almost exactly...