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...well-to-do youth on his family's Danubian estate. His sleep of innocence is torn awake by the discovery of corruption all around him, including incest between his sister and oldest brother. Sebastian flees from home and enlists in the army to find "purity and heroism" in combat; he becomes a daredevil tank commander on the East ern Front as Rumania joins the Axis in the war against Russia. Again reality catches up with the dream, as he witnesses such atrocities as the poisoning of village wells by stuffing them with dead villagers, and the scorched-earth policy...
Illusions of Power. Disillusioned by patriotism and heroism, as he had been by his youthful innocence, Sebastian is taken prisoner by the Russians; in prison he embraces the dream of cold real ism called Communism. Once the Communists seize power in postwar Rumania, Sebastian becomes an officer of the security police; after he can no longer stomach that, he switches to the industrial bureaucracy. His rise is rapid, but at every step he learns that the most corrupting of all the illusions of power is the one that runs, "If there weren't people with a certain amount...
When PT-109 was rammed by a Japanese destroyer, two members of Lieut, (j.g.) John F. Kennedy's crew lost their lives. The skipper wrote to relatives of both men, praising their heroism, and to the widow of Torpedoman Second Class Jack Kirksey Kennedy wrote four letters. "If a captain is fortunate," said the first, "he finds one man in his crew who contributes more than his share. Jack Kirksey was that man." Last week the letters brought $9,500 in Manhattan, highest price yet paid at auction for a memento of the late President...
...consciously theatrical performers in the history of democratic government. His grave and measured voice, somehow made even more sonorous by his lisp, and his majestic, defiant prose gave each of his countrymen a sense of historic purpose and helped keep alive a reassuring belief in the possibility of individual heroism throughout the mass slaughter of World War II. To see a film clip of, say, Neville Chamberlain is to see a man who was swept along by history; to see a film clip of Churchill is to see history itself...
Aided by a neighbor, Mark Patek '65, Gerhart chased the thief down Bow St. and caught him in front of the Lampoon. Miss Gillam meanwhile hailed a passing police car, and the youth was taken into custody. Gerhart modestly deprecated his heroism. "The fellow could hardly walk straight," he said...