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...Bass-Baritone Kim Borg (as the Count) was adequate, but Swedish Soprano Elisabeth Soederstroem (as Susanna) was a silvery voiced delight. The sets by Designer Oliver (Rashomon, House of Flowers) Messel were superbly elegant: a boudoir whose rose-colored silk panels and drapes glowed with a kind of faded splendor, a formal garden suffused with the feathery, misty charm of a landscape by Watteau...
...surroundings by living in a world of her own with smelling salts and trailing dresses and a stubborn refusal to go to work "no matter how needy the rest of the family might be. She was "a touching combination of the sane and the ludicrous along with some secret splendor within herself." Come debt or hunger, she would go to the theater, taking her nephew with her, and when there wasn't even a quarter for the gas meter, she would read her novels by candlelight, teaching Moss that the mind can be its own grand and inviolable theater...
There is still much digging to be done. But already there stands glowing against the Mediterranean blue a vast forest of marble splendor, slightly decadent in detail by Hellenic standards, and yet overpowering in total effect. The ruins, says Bernard Berenson, "are evocative and romantic to a degree that it would be hard to exaggerate. One wants to look and dream, and dream and look. Leptis is, all considered, one of the most impressive fields of ruins on the shores of the Mediterranean...
MONTSERRAT, "the Saw-Toothed Mountain," is one of the holiest places in the shrine-rich Mediterranean world. Rising in sheer purple splendor above the plain 30 miles inland from Barcelona, Spain, the mountain is topped with spires of steeple-like rock. And there, inside the crown, perches an ancient fortress-monastery, where the "Black Virgin" is enshrined. Legend has it that the dark wooden Madonna with the Child upright in her lap appeared as if by miracle within a cave in the mountain one day ten centuries ago. First a church, then a monastery was built near the peak...
Grand Illusion. But De Gaulle apparently had more in mind than protocol splendor and ancient memories. On the seven-hour train trip from Milan to Rome, he took up with an unenthusiastic Gronchi his notions of "Latin brotherhood." He hinted grandly of the benefits of a Mediterranean pact with Italy, and possibly Spain, Tunisia and Morocco. He dangled before his host's eyes France's own imminent entry into the "nuclear club," and seemed to share Le Monde's strange illusion that "Italian leaders desire France to be the natural spokesman for Italy...