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When the British sent Firebrand Jomo Kenyatta to jail eight years ago for starting the Mau Mau revolt, they thought they were putting "Burning Spear" away for good. To offset any lingering loyalty among his supporters, they put out reports that he was growing senile and increasingly alcoholic. But in the wake of Kenya's February elections, the triumphant African leaders made clear that Kenyatta was not forgotten. They demanded his immediate release. British Governor Sir Patrick Renison refused. The Africans responded by refusing to take their seats in the new government. The governor began to retreat, moved Kenyatta...
Dignity for the Peanut Gallery. Field's success as a Chicago publisher is due in part to the fact that Bertie McCormick is no longer around. One of the last practitioners of firebrand personal journalism, McCormick hoisted the Trib to greatness on his own inexhaustible choler; when he died in 1955, succession passed to men who possessed neither the qualifications nor the will to carry on in the colonel's style. As the Tribune's tumult lessened, Chicagoans began to hear another newspaper voice. It belonged to Marshall Field's Sun-Times...
Along with independence. Nigeria acquired one of the most stable and genuinely representative governments in Africa. To ensure the votes necessary to push through his programs, Abubakar brought Zik's N.C.N.C. into coalition with his own Northern Peoples Congress. As payment, longtime Firebrand Zik unpredictably accepted the ceremonial job of governor general. Chief Awolowo resigned himself to the role of Opposition leader...
President de Gaulle does not favor generals in politics, except himself. After the May 13 uprising, he had first promoted but then fired firebrand Paratroop General Jacques Massu. He also kept a wary eye on General Salan, first shunting him off to the largely honorific post of military governor of Paris, then retiring him to the reserve. Salan elected to buy a house in Algiers and plan a new future...
This is more than melodrama, Translator Graves easily persuades the reader. Alarcon, the firebrand grown conservative, still is a mocker. His gentle irony is aimed partly at the lofty aspirations of youth, and also, less obviously, at the easy com promises of age. The author's characters, particularly those that are, in part, self-caricatures, are drawn with accuracy and wit. Alarcón's description of a selfconscious, self-elected young genius shows why his book is worth Graves's trouble and the reader's time: "A young man, pale and gloomy, who avoids mankind...