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From time to time the Generalissimo has shown interest in the establishment of some variety of authoritarian, presidential regime. He is a professed admirer of the Gaullist state and has moved regularly to better his relations with France. Clearly he appreciates the mystique and the personal power that the French...
But Mao appeared eager to impress on his guests that he was not just a saber rattler. To establish his superior knowledge of French letters, the ex-librarian told his stunned interlocutors that he had read "Diderot and all your Encyclopedists. I've even read that 18th century author...
Survival of the Fittest. Even as staunch an admirer as Coleridge found Darwin's poetry "nauseating." Nevertheless, The Botanic Garden, a scientific treatise in rhymed couplets, was a bestseller during his lifetime, and its descriptive lines were vastly admired by many of his contemporaries:
Dallas has more glitter than Houston. As the regional headquarters for scores of national corporations, its offices and light industry stretch for miles in spanking new modernistic structures. Industrial areas have such street names as "Dividend," "Profit," and "Currency." The city spurted when East Texas oilfields came in and farsighted...
Raucous, sentimental, funny and bawdy, 49-year-old Tessie O'Shea is-as an admirer has described her in a dressing-room telegram-"a divine whiff of the Palladium." As the Sophie Tucker of British vaudeville, she is as familiar as a pint of mild in every corner of...