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...fourth Crusade was turned-by the cunning of its Venetian outfitters and the headlong cupidity of the expeditionaries -into a campaign against Christians. The Crusaders wound up sacking invitingly weak Constantinople, until then the greatest Christian city on earth...
Cassandra's theory of reporting fits his headlong methods. "It's easy to be wrong," says he, "but it's not easy to plunge ahead as if you were right without giving the other point of view." No one could ever accuse Cassandra of giving the other point of view on anything from dogs ("Man's best friend is a fake and a fraud, and the sooner he is taught to lay eggs or produce milk the better") to doctors ("I don't like their mumbo jumbo, their smooth, lying inefficiency...
Author Blanch is no pale sociologist; a onetime staffer on the British Vogue, she has an interest in career-woman feminism and an addiction to headlong prose. The value of The Wilder Shores of Love is not in its arguments and conclusions, but in the case histories it presents of four 19th century women who turned their backs on the progressive West and found salvation in the unemancipated East. All four of them, says Author Blanch, "seemed to sense in ... passivity far larger opportunities of self-expression." The four...
Freedom & Chaos. Burma is a land that has not known peace for twelve years. The Japanese and the British twice fought over it during World War II. Burma won its independence and plunged into chaos, headlong and unready. Since then, the Burmese have been fighting disciplined Communist armies and a motley crew of guerrillas and bandits. But recently there have been hopeful changes. In the cold war's continental context, they are small changes; yet relative to the crumble and despair of Southeast Asia, they are significant, even sweeping...
...Hollywood, rehearsing for his show, Red Skelton plunged headlong into a "breakaway"* door. It didn't break, and Red was hospitalized with concussion and a mild case of shock. Skelton seems to be growing accident prone: last year he narrowly missed blowing off his head with a shotgun; last January he fell through a glass shower door, requiring 30 stitches in his arm; last April he sprained his back falling down a flight of stairs. This time, on only 30 minutes' notice, Nightclub Comic Johnny Carson (who is also M.C. of CBS's Earn Your Vacation) took...