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ANTONIO Music (rhymes with do stitch), 43, who was almost unknown until a Paris show last year set critics cheering. Brought up on an island off Dalmatia's coast, where "everyone has his own donkey," Music paints spectral quadrupeds and hilly landscapes in dusty roses, blues and ochers, almost as if he sees them through a sandstorm. Music was a more realistic painter when the Nazis arrested him in 1943 as a partisan sympathizer, later sent him to Dachau. Says he: "Perhaps the ugly things of the concentration camp have brought me toward poetry. There is more mystery...
...midst of a fairly dangerous job--injuries are quite common death is not unknown--the firemen try to keep a cheerful outlook. One Christmas Eve, not long ago, Central Station answered a call near the Square. It was from the house of a widow with four children, and the kitchen, where the fire had started, was gutted. There was a tremendous hole in the roof, and it had been alternately raining and snowing for days. The firemen brought the blaze under control, nailed a tarpaulin over the hole, cleared away the debris, and before they left, one of them remembered...
Parietal rules are unknown in Princeton. Since the clubs are on private property the University has no jurisdiction over them. Under the so-called "Gentlemen's Agreement" clubs enjoy complete autonomy from interference by college proctors if they enforce the rules pertaining to undergraduate behavior...
...fixing of tickets had no moral significance at all. The plain fact is that a certain amount of corruption is fundamental to the American way of life and the American way of politics. One has only to look at England, where ticket-fixing and governmental corruption are virtually unknown, to realize this. It is foolish for a nation of ticket-fixers to expect perfect honesty in its government, any more from Republicans than from Democrats...
...which they were (or were not) fought. His war is simultaneously against Hitler and against "a public quite indifferent to those trains of locked vans . . . rolling East and West from Poland and the Baltic, that were to roll on year after year bearing their innocent loads to ghastly unknown destinations...