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...sets. But those who did come found a unique spectacle-one not confined to breakneck competition (see below). The chill of dusk in the Alps, the comfort of yellow lights in windows at that hour, the mountains them selves were a great spectacle to people who had come from afar (in the words of the Olympic Oath) "for the honor of our country and for the glory of sport...
...filled men with awe and rejoicing. To celebrate this event, artists have enriched the story with regal Byzantine mosaics, the glories of Chartres' medieval stained glass, with enamels, jewels, oils and frescoes. To the Nativity the greatest artists in Western history have, like the Scriptured Magi, traveled afar to bring their most precious Twelfth Night gifts...
...Bandung's dusty streets, fezzes mingled with turbans, longyis with Bond Street suits. A swirl of exotic prophets, devious schemers and earnest advocates swarmed in from afar to urge their causes. Resplendent in a red tarboosh and black gown, the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem materialized like a wraith from the past. There was a young Turkestani from Brooklyn to protest against the "tragic conditions of Moslems in the Soviet Union and China," a delegation from South Africa to urge condemnation of apartheid...
Loving from Afar. The only friend of Hitler's youth was a music-loving upholsterer's son named August Kubizek. For four years (1904-08) he roomed and studied with the young Hitler in the grey Austrian city of Linz and later in Vienna. In Kubizek's unpretentious account of those years, Hitler's hitherto obscure adolescence emerges as a fascinating story...
...will write it down," he told Kubizek, and so it went for several days and nights, until Hitler abruptly quit). For years he was in love with a girl named Stefanie, but he did not dare speak to her. Like the hero of some romantic novel, he worshiped from afar-but managed to persuade himself that Stefanie was madly in love with...