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...Sabres of Paradise, by Lesley Blanch. This history of Russia's struggles to subdue the wild tribesmen of the Caucasus in the 19th century is hardly an orderly chronicle, but its digressions are fascinating, and its heroes are thundering horsemen and high-bouncing lovers...
This book's heroes all seem to be sixfoot-three, thundering horsemen, invincible sword fighters and high-bouncing lovers; if the story were fiction, critics could complain that the earth does not breed such men. But Author Lesley Blanch has discovered an episode-Russia's efforts to subdue the Caucasian mountain tribes during the first half of the 19th century -which abounds in authentic hell-and-crinoline raisers, and she describes it with enormous relish. Not much romanticizing is necessary; the source material is generally incandescent...
...wily moneylender was puzzled by his casual conversation with the two strange horsemen who had ridden into Babylon that day in 539 B.C. One of the men was dressed as a servant, the other as master; yet the servant spoke like a lord, and the questions he asked were odd for an ordinary visitor. He seemed intrigued by the River Euphrates, and when he rode on. he said to the moneylender: "I am much indebted to you today, for you have shown me the way that I can open into your city." A few months later, :he waters...
...McCarthy listened from a nearby desk, Maggie denounced him for debasing the Senate "to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination, sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity ... I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the four horsemen of calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear." Afterward, McCarthy sneeringly referred to Margaret Smith and the six Republicans* who signed her declaration as "Snow White and the Six Dwarfs." Seeking revenge, he managed to strip her of two committee assignments, entered a protege in the 1954 Maine primaries to defeat...
...with rich Oriental rugs), heard the eerie caterwauling of pipes played by a countermarching military regiment, watched Pathan tribesmen from the northwest frontier as they danced in wild, hair-tossing abandon, observed part of an Australian-Pakistani cricket match, marveled at an exhibition of tent-pegging (in which shrieking horsemen galloped full speed at tent pegs and picked them out of the ground on their lances as they swooped...