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...characters remain inexhaustibly baffling. Next to Jesus, Napoleon, and Shakespeare himself, more may have been written about Hamlet than any other subject. The problem seems simple: Why does Hamlet take so long to kill the King? Goethe's answer was that Hamlet was an intellectual whose habit of "thinking too precisely on the event" sapped his will. Subsequently, Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones fashioned a Hamlet with an Oedipus complex whose dilemma was amusingly compounded because he somehow knew he had an Oedipus complex. Recently Rebecca West produced the dissenting or beatnik Hamlet who has the strength to kill the King...
...Marines and "gangsters" from "that decadent democracy," the government crowd is herding Cubans into mass institutions-militias, cooperatives, government youth groups, and labor unions. The man in charge of collectivizing the economy is Che Guevara, head of the National Bank. A slender asthmatic with an un-Latin habit of curtness, he mastered the complexities of banking in a few months on the job, is all the more feared by anti-Communists for his efficiency...
...Rudolf Heizler: "I've always let Hannes write what he pleases. His column is a hodgepodge of movie small talk, café-society indiscretions and insinuations, nightclub gossip, and his occasional hangover spells of the moral shakes. But we long ago found that reading this hodgepodge becomes highly habit-forming. He's our biggest circulation-getter...
...question: "When a cartoon or column appears in the press that is unfriendly to you, we often hear people say: 'I'll bet they won't let the President see that one.' Now what are your regular habits, sir, for keeping up with what we are saying about you?'' The answer: "Well, I don't know whether you can call it a habit-for the simple reason that it takes a lot of time if I was going to keep track of what all you people say. I take the-what I call...
...First Captain of Cadets. A full colonel at 29, he commanded field artillery in World War II (North Africa, Germany) and paratroops in Korea, taught at the Army War College, took over the 101st Airborne Division in 1958. The very model of a modern major general, he made a habit of jumping before his men, is known as a soldier whose mind and manner are ingrained with a general's supreme necessity, "the habit of command...