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Speaking to an audience of 75 in the Kirkland House Junior common Room on "Guerrilla War and the Conspiratorial Theory of History". Tito's diarist explained that an ideology of change fostered among the intellectuals will not sustain a revolutionary movement without the backing of a mass movement. On the other hand, he said, a spontaneous uprising will not be successful without its goal founded in an ideology...
Classicist, philosopher, novelist, essayist, memoirist, journalist, diarist (170-odd volumes of notebooks repose in Houghton Library)--and so much more. Above all he strove to be a 20th-century Periclean Hellene; and his whole life was indeed a paragon of the ancient Greek arete...
Official forbearance eventually gave way under the pressure of the press. Jordanian troops escorting what was soon dubbed "the papalcade" eventually resorted to muscle, swagger sticks and gun butts to keep order in the unholy mess. Cesidio Lolli, sedate papal diarist for L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican daily, lost his temper after a manhandling by Arab Legionnaires. "You may be the soldiers of Herod," he snapped, "but please remember that I am not a Christian infant...
...capitals seem parochial. Until recent years, it was impossible to go to dinner at London's most fashionable clubs or private houses without passing swarms of well-turned-out and sometimes handsome streetwalkers standing guard on the sidewalk. Like many another foreign analyst of Anglo-Saxon attitudes, French Diarist Hippolyte Taine, visiting London in the mid 19th century, could not comprehend how the English could sustain the "vehemence and pungency of their passions" against "the harsh, though silent, grinding of their moral machinery...
...psychologist, a philosopher, a geologist, a geographer, physicians, a sociologist. The expedition was more than a sporting assault: on Everest, Dr. William Siri planned to measure the effects of solar radiation, study the effects of high altitudes on the human mind and body. Even the team's diarist was something of a specialist: Novelist (The White Tower) James Ramsey Ullman...