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Zhivago himself is a weak man, a Russian Hamlet to whom reality itself is the greatest antagonist. (The figure of Hamlet dominates Zhivago's conception of himself, culminating in the most notable of his poems collected at the end of the book.) The collection of pygmies in the Soviet Writers Union, besides their fatuous forays against Zhivago's politics complained that the character lacked a social conscience, that the book itself was devoid of a social meaning. And, in a way, it is legitimate criticism. When a protagonist of great stature fails to come to terms with reality...
House as an institution. "The House is the greatest jury on earth," says Sam Rayburn. In his capacity as chief juror, he soon decided that Wilbur Mills was a real comer. He brought Mills along, got him elected to Ways & Means in 1942, saw him become chairman last year...
...magnetic Dr. Lacour, the ex-paratrooper willing to murder for money, and the fetching blonde prostitute called Maïté. And, finally, there is the unloved and unloving adopted boy, Jean-Pierre Guillaume, around whom everything seems to revolve. At stake is one of the world's greatest fortunes...
During the Middle Ages there rose in West Africa a kingdom of warlike tribes that came to be known as the Empire of the Mali (rhymes with Bali). Among its greatest rulers was a crippled boy named Sundiata Keita, who survived the murder of his eleven brothers and ascended the throne in 1230, to build a realm that was eventually to cover what is now Guinea, Senegal, the French Sudan and Ghana. Last week one of Sundiata's descendants, the Sudan's Modibo Keita, was in Dakar, capital of Senegal, as one of the architects of a modern...
...Ealum Bruffett, an Ozarks country schoolteacher for 16 years, told oratorically of spying out the enemy: "I have been watching this creeping evolution in our textbooks for years. My own daughter has been exposed to this and has not complained. That is what scares me. This would be the greatest hurt you could do to children, destroying their belief in a proper Creation...