Word: camelot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Complicated Camelot...
Toward the end Sir Lancelot says, ". . . though Galahad is unusual, I doubt if he will ever become typical," which might be as aptly said of many a strapping young idealist now studying sociology at Columbia or Stanford instead of chivalry at Camelot...
Lancelot is speaking of his only begotten son, a natural one who was more or less forced upon him by the first Elaine. There was never a fonder father nor prouder, nor ever one more vexed by his offspring's priggishness. For when Galahad left Camelot to seek (as legend soon had it) "the holiest thing in the world," and hence the Grail, it was not so much the quest that lured him as the necessity for a quest that drove him. He had just learned of his irregular birth and, to cap that, of his father...
Courageous, chivalrous, when he ran for the first of his three Congressional terms seven years ago he talked from a wheel chair, said of his opponent: "No knightlier spirit than Edgar Watkins ever went to worthy combat or shivered lance at Camelot or Stirling." Himself lost in Camelot's misty lore, Knight Upshaw may often think in terms of questing a Holy Grail...
...strength of the Camelots is computed at 1,500,000? scattered throughout France. In every local arrondissement is a Camelot group, drilled and trained under the guise of "general athletics." The Royalist war chest is said to contain many millions of francs, and more money continues to flow into its coffers. Farmers and peasants are reported to be joining the organization...