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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing less than the birth, life and death of man. There are no monumental mementos of captains, kings and conquerors in the Vigeland cast of characters-just plain men, women & children. Massive males stagger under the weight of a heavy fountain-bowl; chubby children sport in & out of stone tree branches. A bridge over a pool bears 58 bronze figures of rugged toilers. At one corner of the bridge is a 20-ft. dragon clutching a reluctant woman whose bowed face, closely examined, reveals smiling pleasure. Topping the park is a 56-ft. white granite monolith, stone for which...
...announcing that he was born in jail. He came close to it. His father was the county jailer in Louisa, Ky., a tiny town in the Big Sandy Valley just across the river from West Virginia. When Fred was born in 1890, the Vinsons lived in a red brick, tree-shaded house with the jail in the rear. There was a sign outside which to a casual observer might have applied to home and cellblock alike: "$10 fine for talking to prisoners...
...PINE TREE AND THE MOLE-Enzio Taddei-Dial...
...some particles of brain matter. "He must have remained unconscious for some hours. Snow began to fall at 6 next morning. . . . About 7 a.m., after it had stopped snowing, he had staggered from the summer house. . . . His footsteps could be traced in a rough circle round the gardens from tree to tree and back to the summer house, a distance of 165 yards. ... He then walked up a narrow path, unlocked the garden gate with his key, walked across the road ... a total distance of 300 yards. At 7:30 he rang the bell . . . and said quite clearly...
...work on The Death of Virgil when he fled to the U.S. from his native Austria in 1938. That same year Novelist Ezio Taddei, an Italian anarchist, climbed the Alps and escaped to France and the U.S., after 18 years in Fascist prisons. His new novel, The Pine Tree and the Mole, is a study of Italian society some 2,000 years after Virgil's death. In both books the theme is the tortured condition of man when the old gods fall before the dictatorship of Caesar...