Word: xiii
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...Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's unhurried newspaper, has just published the news that on March 3, 1890, Buffalo Bill met Pope Leo XIII. Seems Bill Cody was on tour with his troupe, and was standing in St. Peter's Square when the Pope passed by. The two did not speak, noted L'Osservatore; yet "the Pope observed Cody with curiosity, and when he passed before him, the great explorer bowed deeply while receiving the papal benediction." No story ran then because it was not an official audience. But now it could be told: L'Osservatore...
...exhibit itself has been mounted with great sensitivity to the viewer's relaxed involvement. Galleries XI and XIII have been filled with large works; in XI, a series of very powerful dark field nudes and interiors (e.g., Le Foyer, #37, or Femme Au Bain, #31); in XIII, a colored, proto-abstract landscape series. In the central room, divided by partitions, the smaller, more casual works have been mounted in groups, much as they would have appeared on the wall of a late nineteenth century room. Flowers on console tables bring out the color of those monotypes which have been reworked...
Nothing, of course, that Franco did or did not do last week shed any real light on the succession. Don Juan, as son of the late King Alfonso XIII, is still the official pretender and conducts himself like a man who expects to be king. He receives advice from a shadow cabinet of royal councilors, holds audiences in his villa at the Portuguese resort town of Estoril and is attended at all times by a grandee of Spain. Last week the monarchist crowds in Madrid even dared chant a forbidden cry: "Long live King Juan...
Natural Right. Populorum Progressio shifts considerably to the left of previous papal encyclicals in its criticism of private property. In his celebrated Rerum Novarum of 1891, Pope Leo XIII argued that economic reform must take into account "the inviolability of private property"; Pope John's Mater et Magistra likewise termed private ownership "a natural right" of man. Paul, on the other hand, declared that property ownership "does not constitute for anyone an absolute and unconditional right. No one is justified in keeping for his exclusive use what he does not need when others lack necessities. The right to property...
...Hotel Drouot," France's largest auction house. Buyers are holding on to what they have and are eager to buy more. Consequently, things that would have been passed up by connoisseurs a decade ago are now fetching some farfetched prices. Pre-Raphaelite drawings, early Americana and Louis XIII furniture have increased over last season's record-smashing pace. Peregrine Pollen, president of Manhattan's Parke-Bernet, is still stunned that a 16th century bronze brought $17,000, or $5,000 more than his most optimistic guess. For the first time Parke-Bernet's schedule is booked...