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When the author of these lines, Ezra Pound, came bounding out of Idaho in 1900, he brought along one of the world's remarkable egos. He also brought a poetic flame, the divining eye of a natural teacher, and a motley personality-part despot, part poet, part pressagent. Clearly, he was in for an interesting time...
...stop the despot whio strikes...
...Despot, dictator, lunatic, gangster-with these words Yenan last week resumed its political critique of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, after almost a year of vain negotiations between Chungking and the Chinese Communists. The words fell thick and fast...
...than a storm of briefs. Dr. Holmes was noted professionally for his researches into puerperal fever. But he was famous as an indefatigable essayist and light versifier. His Autocrat of the Breakfast Table had impressed even the Germans - who read it under the some what imperious title, Der Tisch-Despot...
...Charta and King John, Italy's northern cities had won self-rule from the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Florence and Venice had once borne the title of republic. But the trend had been beaten down through the centuries when the peninsula served as the cockpit of Guelph and Ghibelline, despot and noble, rival Spaniard, Frenchman and German. In Milan, in 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte had crowned himself with the iron crown of Lombardy. In Milan, in 1848, the Habsburg General Count Joseph Radetzky had smashed the people's barricades. But the day of Italy's Risorgimento (resurrection) came...