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...have come as a pilgrim for peace," I he announced. Later, clad in white, he knelt before the cenotaph to the 140,000 people killed as a result of the first bomb that fell on Hiroshima. Then he rose, and as the eternal flame burned behind him, the Roma Hoo (Pope) last week spoke forcefully and with an edge of anger reminiscent of the biblical prophets: "The final balance of the human suffering that began here has not been fully drawn up, nor has the total human cost been tallied, especially when one sees what nuclear war has done...
...Hampton (The Philanthropist) wrote it when he was only 18. He was obviously drawn to Rimbaud as a fin-de-sicle spiv, and Silver plays him that way. Markay's Verlaine is the more richly shaded portrayal, ranging from voracious sensual appetite to a discernment of the gemlike flame with which Rimbaud's poetry would burn in posterity's eyes...
...Great Society into an agenda for the '80s. Americans committed to social justice mow face the future leaderless, devoid of new ideas and without a working-class base of support. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a man conspicuous in his absense from Kuttner's book is fond of saying, "the flame may flicker, but the danger dream will never die." Yet the flame is in danger without the fuel of new ideas and vision. Kuttner begins to tell us where we were, but we must know soon where we should...
When he could play, Bill Walton was the Man Mountain of basketball, a flame-haired, 6-ft. 11-in., 225-lb. human wall beneath the basket. The true measure of his greatness was the glint in his eyes, the concentrated, almost maniacal fury that burned when he leaped to block a shot or scanned the floor before rifling an outlet pass on a fast break. That intensity made Walton one of the finest and most feared centers of his generation...
...will take me more than five months to get over Peter's death," declared Lynne Frederick, 26, last Christmas in Gstaad, where she was recovering in the company of David Frost, 41, an old flame. Exactly one month later, Peter Sellers' widow marched down the aisle with her consoler, the eminently eligible British television star and producer, in a quiet ceremony in Theberton, England. Sellers' children professed outrage. "This only proves her love for my father was paper thin," snapped Michael, 26, who, along with Sarah, 23, and Victoria, 16, is contesting Sellers' will, which leaves...