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Penance for a Flat. Gregorian Chant, or plain song, is a flowing unaccompanied chant that originated in the Greek, Roman and Hebrew melodies used by the first Christians. Thousands of these chants were composed by unknown authors; according to tradition, it was not until the 6th century that they were collected and edited under St. Gregory the Great, who was Pope from 590 to 604. Gregorian Chant, the music of the church, was practically the only written music in Europe during the early Middle Ages, but with the Renaissance, a new flamboyance began to corrupt the ancient Latin prayer-songs...
...Christmas cards that Presidential Candidate Stevenson sent out during the week, acknowledging cards he received, he struck a humble note. His card bore the prayer of an unknown Confederate soldier...
Fresh May Wine. During the two years (1886-88) the three painters saw each other, they were unknown outside their own small circle of artists. Their favorite Paris haunts were the bars of Montmartre, the paint shop of Père Tanguy, and the mezzanine of Goupil's Gallery, which modest Dutch Art Dealer Theo van Gogh had turned into a boisterous rendezvous for the despised impressionists. There congregated the unbought painters, including Toulouse-Lautrec, then 23, and swashbuckling Paul Gauguin, 39, the onetime stockbroker who was now a full-fiedged painter just back from Panama and Martinique, roaring...
Gauguin, selling his paintings to pay the passage, turned his proud-beaked head toward Tahiti and the unknown future. Toulouse-Lautrec, grown famous for his paintings peopled with characters from Parisian cafés and brothels, remained a staunch defender of Van Gogh until his own death eleven years later...
...break your excellent habit of nominating a well-known person and put a world-forgotten person like me on your cover? It is not because I am interesting, but I have the idea it will be an attraction if you nominate an unknown world citizen who has had, until now, bad luck. I am Dutch, 51 years of age, of French descent...