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...Indo-China and make Mao Tse-tung master of China. The Malraux of the middle period had much to recommend him too. As an almost mythical liberal of the 1930s and a famous novelist (Man's Fate, Man's Hope), he helped organize and then commanded the brave, ramshackle Republican air force that flew against Franco's armies in the Spanish Civil War. Finally, if the author felt inclined to autumnal apologia, he could start by revealing himself in his current incarnation as De Gaulle's Minister of Culture: the man who gave Paris a long...
...searching thou shalt finde that the workes of many brave men are buried in oblivion . . . though part of those workes have escaped, the wracke of the rest have perished in the Gulf of time, which hath swallowed the best of many men's endeavours. -17th century Hudson Bay Explorer Luke Foxe...
...reality my sympathies are with Jerry, but I fear he confused two very separate issues. First, there is a draft that is raping the minds of college men, making them do alil sorts of brave and not-so-brave things. I, for one, would hope that criticism be directed toward the system which is totally distorting personal motivations and frustrating young college...
...last week in Madrid, nature followed art in one man's brave and ec centric act of self-fulfilling prophecy. Precisely at noon on Sunday, 42-year-old Gonzalo Arias hung a brace of white posters over his shoulders and began to stroll down thronged Calle de la Princesa. The message, in black letters fore and aft, was simple: "In the Name of the Spanish People, I respectfully ask that free elections be held for the head of state." It was not the sort of thing that happens every Sunday afternoon in Spain, and heads spun as Arias paraded...
Sensitive to the bruised, bitter feelings of his crusaders, McCarthy is caught in a delicate irony partly of his own making. The very cause for McCarthy's brave defiance of Lyndon Johnson last winter--America's idiotic substitution of military hardware for perceptive diplomacy abroad--is now, in a new sense, the most respectable reason for backing Johnson's head cheerleader...