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...Bell, liquored up on his own hooch, killed a man in a knife fight. Then he would have to flee, back across the line into western Virginia, up into one of those hollows where a man had kin. The only excitement of the trip, made in mid-winter on horseback, was that it would kill the two children he had even while his wife gave birth to another, whom Jaybird named William McLean Bell, after his own father...
...adaptations, as the classical world sank, it took some arts with it. The great casualty was large-scale sculpture in the round. From Constantinople to Italy, there are plenty of low-relief carvings after the 4th century. But not for a thousand years would there be bronze heroes on horseback to match the Marcus Aurelius on the Roman capitol. From Constantine onward, the Christian emperors preferred flat hieratical art, especially mosaics, whose multiplicity of shapes suited a power based on ceremony. The "otherworldliness" of those gold-and purple-sheathed Byzantine nobles, glittering in mosaic on the walls of Ravenna...
...didn't have an identifiable name, how would one know to buy it?" An even bigger star, Billy Graham, mildly invokes the great Evangelicals of the past to defend the jet-setting and electronic gimmickry that have become a part of his calling. "John Wesley had to go on horseback. George Whitefield had to spend all that time crossing the Atlantic 13 times. They used to have to shout at the top of their lungs. I can use a microphone...
SAILOR ON HORSEBACK (A BIOGRAPHY) AND 28 SELECTED JACK LONDON STORIES Doubleday; 777 pages; $12.95 Jack London was the stuff of dust-jacket writers' dreams. His life read better than other novelists' plots. Before he was out of his teens he had, among other things, shipped on a sealing expedition to the Bering Sea, worked 14-hour days in a California cannery, ridden the hobo rails cross-country and served 30 days in a Buffalo jail for vagrancy. A heavy drinker by the age of 16 with a voracious appetite for undercooked meat and slightly overripe women...
...trainer's family on Long Island and is finishing high school through correspondence courses. He telephones his parents every day. Since December he has earned about $200,000. He cannot explain his success. He is a child and he is a man, and he is capable of magic on horseback perhaps because he still believes in magic...