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Beside this terrible banality, Keneally's suggestion that family is another name for incest seems positively matter-of-fact. Further Keneally theories: an exceptional child is doomed to play Joan of Arc-martyr-to parents, who compulsively burn as witch that truthful spirit in the child that sees the beast in its elders and, worse, announces it. "Parents, for all their preaching and threats, turn out to be the children," the remarkable Barbara observes. This freedom to speculate, Keneally may be saying, is the only freedom...
...where Cowan and the younger players broke off to play table tennis with some of the students. Steenhoven, the Chrysler man, was invited to drive a truck that had been built almost entirely by the students. "I complimented them on the quality of the chrome, the bead of the arc welding, and the high-quality workmanship," he said. "I drove the truck very badly, I'm afraid, partly because the press was out there in front and I was afraid I might kill a couple, so I stalled the engine a couple of times...
...basis of a hand-picked electorate; martial law was imposed after an outbreak of rioting in 1969. During those years, Pakistan was divided by more than geography. Physically and psychologically, the 58 million tall, light-skinned people of the west identified with the Islamic peoples who inhabit the arc of land stretching as far as Turkey. The smaller, darker East Pakistanis seemed to belong more to the world of South and Southeast Asia. More divisive yet was the fact that the westerners monopolized the government and the army and dominated the nation's commercial life. The East Pakistanis have...
Like Joan of Arc, Michel Collin was born into a Lorraine peasant family, and like the Maid, he heard voices. "You will become a priest, then a bishop, and finally Pope," he recalls Jesus telling him. To a purported 50,000 followers in Western Europe, Canada and the U.S., Collin is now Pope Clement XV of the "Renewed Church." Paul VI, of the Vatican, is a mere usurper...
...course Joan of Arc, that provocative manifestation of God's will (or pure fortune), who appeared at the last moment to rally Charles' forces and save the country. But it was from the Dauphin, Louis, that leadership came to knit up the raveled threads of French life after St. Joan's battlefield miracle. Hung with epithets ("The universal spider," which referred to the scope and stickiness of his machinations, was one of the mildest), he eventually took his place in history as Louis XI, a giant and an ogre, a bloodstained, gloomy tyrant who forged a unitary...