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...doctor began poking about in corners and cupboards. "What are you looking for?" asked Angelo Pardi. "The last one," answered the-doctor cryptically. [He] must have dragged himself off to some unspeakable corner. As he's the one who has a chance, he's the one we have to find." At last they found him in a storeroom, doubled up in his death agony. "Grab him by the shoulders," snapped the doctor, "unbutton his trousers . . .Rub his legs." But within minutes "the last one" was blue, cold and dead. And dead, too, by the next night...
Valor & Cowardice. Angelo continues his ride to Italy convinced that the conduct of the intrepid doctor is the best answer to this question. For everywhere he goes, most men & women are responding to the threat of death with be havior that is a degradation of the hu man spirit. The rich are fleeing the plague in expensive carriages, bribing quarantine officials to let them through. The middle class are incapable of fleeing because they are weighed down by stuffed furniture and bric-a-brac. The poor are working themselves into a state of hysteria by spreading and believing bloodcurdling...
With the image of the heroic doctor always in his mind, Angelo tends the sick in one plague-stricken village after an other. "You can see, can't you," he pleads with the terrified villagers, "that I, though I look after the sick and touch them, am not ill? . . .[You] who are afraid and suspicious of everything will die." But Angelo loses faith in the doctor's example when he finds that there is no way to save people from dying. So he teams up for a while with a stouthearted nun and works mightily, washing and laying...
...Symbols & Images. When Angelo at last rides over the mountains to Italy, he carries with him a few hard-earned conclusions. One is that death is not such a terrible thing, because most people are "dead" in life and make the world "a cemetery above the ground." Another is that death has no patience with people who strike attitudes and make sentimental gestures. A third-the most important-is that it is man's duty to hold his head high and to struggle all his life "to be stronger, or more handsome, or more seductive than death...
...Greek leaders landed in Italy and were feted with maximum pomp and ceremony. Premier Alexander Papagos and Foreign Minister Stephanos Stephanopoulos were met at the Rome airport by a delegation headed by Italian Premier Giuseppe Pella. That evening, going to a reception in Rome's Castel Sant' Angelo, spectacularly lighted by 1,023 flaming oil pots, Stephanopoulos and Papagos were saluted by guards in 16th-century costume. The party in the famed Borgia apartments atop the ancient pile (classically known as Hadrian's Tomb) was the high point of a four-day visit which had the practical...