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...literary essays, e.g., on Diderot, Whitman, Ibsen, he was an appreciator but no critic. As a thinker he belongs to the age of the New Woman, with its feminists, pacifists and socialists-pressed flowers in the book of ideas. Ellis' real enemy was Victorian prudery, and the real dragon he killed was Mrs. Grundy. As a freedom fighter he was doughty enough to call for the humane treatment of homosexuals when England was still seething with the trial of Oscar Wilde. His unshockability has become a sophisticated and sometimes cynical 20th century attitude; but in Havelock Ellis...
...French pride, tried to bind up the debilitating wounds of Algeria, chipped away at NATO's supranational foundations; but the problems raised by De Gaulle's France were at least and at last those of national purpose, not political paralysis. Just a hot breath away from the Red Chinese dragon, Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi, Man of the Year in the Far East, opted for conservatism, free enterprise and closer ties with the U.S., won a thumping victory in elections for the upper house of the Diet, routed Socialists who campaigned for an alliance with Peking and Moscow...
Dilworth recognized the voice. It belonged to the lady on the serving line who always tried for his tie with her ladle of gravy. So far, he had successfully fended her off, but she was becoming alarmingly accurate of late. Once, she had even managed to stain the fire dragon on his Japanese vest...
...Henry had liked coffee for breakfast, there would have been no agon. If not for his fateful passion for fruit juice, Harkness Commons would never have been darkened by the dragon-wing of history. Henry's greatness was thrust upon him. All he wished to do was to exchange his breakfast coffee (his legal right by contract) for a second fruit juice...
Adams & the Dragon. Before his death, Wolfe found time to assess the Americans who fought with the British army. They were, he said, "the dirtiest, most contemptible, cowardly dogs that you can conceive." Less than two decades later, the Americans were to prove that estimate badly mistaken. Author Tourtellot's chronicle of Lexington shows that the British, to begin with, were reluctant dragons. Their general back in Boston was lethargic, kindly Thomas Gage, who hoped merely to prevent incidents between his 5,000 bored troops and the restless Boston mobs. The man who refused to give him peace...