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...days of World War II as simultaneous ambassador to seven Allied governments in exile, subsequently switched over to a staff job at Dwight Eisenhower's SHAEF and stayed on in the Army till his 1955 retirement as a major general, returned to diplomacy only last March at the behest of President Kennedy...
...hand-me-down maxims, including a standing head that ran over every police story: CRIME NEVER PAYS. One of the most enigmatic samples of U.S. newspaper wisdom comes from Mark 4:28 and runs above the Christian Science Monitor's lucid editorial page. It was adopted at the behest of Founder Mary Baker Eddy, who prescribed the original quote from the King James Version of the Bible: "First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear." Staving off endless wisecracks, a resourceful editor substituted the verse as it appears in the American Standard Version...
...Greek, Roman, Renaissance, Assyrian, Mayan, Egyptian. Tartar, and Park Avenue highrise. Cauldrons boil, priests prophesy, volcanoes belch, lava pours, mountains move, buildings crumble, tidal waves tumble, and death-ray guns pulverize people and ships. The slaves in the House of Fear are turned into beasts of burden at the behest of a crystal-twirling caliph: "Now you will close your eyes. When you are commanded to open them, you will be a bull"-or a boar, a bear, a dog or an ox, depending on how George mixes the colors on his ingenious Palette...
...Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee; based on Maurice Edelman's novel) tells of an American journalist (Jeffrey Lynn) who, while vacationing in Moscow, seeks out his former Ohio astronomy professor (George Voskovec), now the greatest of Soviet scientists. What begins as a mere reunion turns, at the behest of the U.S. embassy, into an appeal to Scientist Kuprin to escape to America. What begins as an appeal turns, through the vigilance of the U.S.S.R., into some brisk spy-and-counterspy hanky-panky. At the end Kuprin, caught out, swears to stay permanently in the U.S.S.R. in exchange...
...great exception to the rule was the master statesman Gudea, of whom 30-odd statues have been found-"the most impressive body of sculpture," says Parrot, "erected at the behest of a single man in a single space." But even Gudea has his hands clasped, for to the Sumerians the human figure was always the worshiper. Art was a bridge between the ephemeral and the eternal; a statue was, in fact, a liberation from the world of men to the world beyond...