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...marriage. "I submit my happiness to you," he wrote Bute, "who are the best of friends, whose friendship I value if possible above my love for the most charming of her sex." When Bute said no, George and his advisers agreed on Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, sight unseen...
Trying to hold on to power at any price, the DC portrayed the left as a united and anti-democratic front, with whom there could be no "historic compromise." Ironically, the result of their attitude seems to have been a hitherto-unseen unity among the PCI and the smaller parties of the left, from the workers movement, Lotta Continua, to the intellectual leftists of the Partito Radicale, and even including the Socialists, the habitual enemies...
City Hall will probably look to Washington no matter what happens in November. Beame still seems to be a gambler betting on an unseen card. He appears to be following the dubious premise that it will be easier to bargain with the President of the U.S. than the presidents of the city unions...
...through the snow, the sense of oppression here is very real. The work is made of fragments until the isolated images of the dancers become rapidly more systematic and simultaneous. The climax brings a kind of ghoulish march with the eyes of each dancer riveted to a demonic force, unseen by the audience, which surrounds and controls them...
...Sleeping Christ Child (a recent acquisition) shines with that inexplicable inner light of Caravaggio, Gentileschi's master. And in a small back gallery on the first floor of the museum the Heinz Gotze Exhibit of Japanese Art exemplifies the peculiarly Oriental process of passing from the seen to the unseen. The paintings and calligraphy make a pictorial poetry which Ezra Pound described as "the ideal language of the world...