Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...counted on Premier Hendrik Verwoerd's determination to put down critics he found troublesome, even if the critic was a bishop. Forty-two hours after Bishop Reeves landed, detectives, led by the chief of the special branch, showed up at his simple room in the Priory of St. Benedict and handed him a deportation order signed by the Minister of Interior. He was given half an hour to pack. Reeves was assured that he could consult a lawyer before departing, but before his aides could get through to one, the bishop was on his way to the airport, where...
Food for Centaurs, by Robert Graves. Besides writing with wit and learning about the centaurs' food (aphrodisiac mushrooms), the author renders highly personal judgments on Judas and Benedict Arnold (no traitors), afterworlds (dull) and Ava Gardner (delightful...
...more eccentric vein. Graves maintains that neither Benedict Arnold nor Judas were traitors. Sample argument: "A dishonest treasurer, as Judas is represented as being, would not have sold out at that petty price." The title piece of Food for Centaurs is a superlative action shot of Graves in the fine, frenzied throes of a theory. By some recondite detective work, he reaches the conclusion that the centaurs' food was mushrooms. It was a very special scarlet-capped European mushroom, known as the fly-amanite. According to Graves, this mushroom is fiery to the taste, imparts extraordinary muscular strength...
...most twittering lovebirds of the year. Remington Typewriter Heiress Gamble Benedict, 19. and her Rumanian-born ex-chauffeur. Andrei Porumbeanu. 35, rushed off from Manhattan to South Carolina with matrimony in mind. Gamble's watchful grandma, Katharine Harper Benedict, soon swung into action, successfully blocked their plans to marry in South Carolina. But Granny could do little to halt issuance of a marriage license to the couple in North Carolina, where they then journeyed. Technically, Andrei had run off with the ward of a Manhattan court, but. armed with proof of his very recent Mexican divorce. Porumbeanu made "Gambi...
...redundant and stuffed with reminiscences of Greek and Roman splendor. pseudo-Biblical, pseudomystical." A whole generation of Italian youth accepted his vision of life as an opera with bogus lyrics but real swords. Filippo Marinetti, founder and chief exhibitionist of the crackpot futurist cult (he later proposed kidnaping Pope Benedict XV in an airplane and dropping him into the Adriatic), hailed D'Annunzio as "the prodigious seducer, the ineffable descendant of Casanova and Cagliostro...