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With or without the vine leaves in his hair, his sense of news verged on the occult. He knew bishops and gunmen, politicians and pickpockets, and treated both the great and the sham with the same casual impertinence. His mind was a brimming pool of assorted facts, which he turned on and off like...
Short, spare, blue-eyed, with a flowing white beard which he tucks into his vest at mealtimes, Sculptor Maillol comes of a line of smugglers, fishermen and vine-growers who lived in Banyuls, a Mediterranean village near the Spanish border...
Less pleased was she by another wellwisher, who offered to buy one of the casualties, a slightly damaged bust of Lucretia Mott, for his rock garden, twine a vine over its missing ear. "Of all the insolence!" sniffed Mrs. Johnson. "Can you imagine my Lucretia in a rock garden...
...Theilade), a hoop-pantalooned Lola Montez (Ludwig's grandfather's mistress) with a belt of false teeth, Mr. and Mrs. Sacher Masoch in riding breeches, and enough assorted subconscious erotica to strain the limbo of an experienced psychopath. Meanwhile, at one side of the stage, a moribund, vine-sprouting faun in red tights concentrated on knitting a sock with three-foot knitting needles...
...scare anyone out of the idea, Capek takes a poor, benighted nihilist, lets him blow up the world, and start all over again. Adam, the nihilist, proceeds to get himself mixed up with a clinging vine, mass production, Nazism, Communism, religion, and democracy, and in the end passes the world back to God, apparently mighty glad to get out of the job of Creator. Yet while Mr. Capek takes agile swats at every political theory in sight, his only constructive theory seems to be to leave everything in the hands of God. Perhaps that's all the Czechs...