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...headlong pride, Captain Michales, singlehanded, routs a band of Turkish agas (military overlords) from their favorite coffeehouse. For this scandal, a handsome, virile Turk named Nuri Bey takes revenge by killing Captain Michales' brother. But the brother, with the last dying thrust of his dagger, emasculates Nuri Bey. The unmanning of the Turk would scarcely disturb Captain Michales, except that Nuri Bey's wife, an almond-eyed Circassian beauty, is already in his blood as if he had drunk a love potion. Captain Michales smothers his desire, but smolders over his comrade-in-arms, Captain Polyxigis, who does...
...joining. For months, Soviet diplomats worked above and below ground to keep the last link from closing. "As a good neighbor," a top Soviet diplomat warned Iran, "Russia is ready to settle all pending accounts with you without fuss, but there are certain evil hands which give you a dagger to injure her face. That you must not do." Russians wined and dined Iranian officials, offered free newsprint to neutralist newspapers. Premier Bulganin invited Shah Reza Pahlevi and his Queen to Moscow, but the cautious young Shah posponed the visit. Said he last week: "The neutrality and peaceful intentions...
...little its peasant psychology and hot Sicilian natures have in common with highborn Greek tragedy. Only now and then does there jut up the fated blundering of life, and the pity of it. Far oftener it seems no Furies' shears that slit, but the vendetta's dagger, not prideful man that falls, but tormented beast...
...London, Britain's dagger-eyed, razor-brained Poetess Edith (Facade) Sitwell, baptized an Anglican, decided at a ripe 67 on a change of church. Kneeling in London's (Jesuit) Immaculate Conception Church, Dame Edith was received into the Roman Catholic Church. Said Convert Sitwell humbly: "I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy...
Like most Spanish intellectuals since his day, Goya was a liberal at war with himself. When Napoleon invaded Spain in 1808, Goya at first welcomed what he hoped would be a clean broom. But his patriotic heart went out to the defenders, and he finally engraved on his dagger the words: "Death to the French." Still, he lived on the fringes of the invader's court, painted French generals as well as Spanish. He also portrayed the triumphant Wellington, and finally, though with obvious distaste, the returned King Ferdinand VII. Vacillating and bad-tempered though Goya was, no ruler...