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...guns glower down the broad avenues, presumably on guard against the "corruption" and "imperialist aggressors" the Baghdad radio so ceaselessly attacks. Barefoot young people rove the banks of the Tigris, singing patriotic songs and shouting: "Nasser, Nasser." Every wall and shopwindow in town bears the image of the idol of the Nile-or that of Iraq's own Revolutionary Chief Karim Kassem...
...surviving "long-eared" statue builder-the rest had been slaughtered, they said, by "short-eared" Polynesian invaders centuries ago. Easter Island's Mayor Pedro Atan demonstrated how the statues might have been raised on their platforms by having a crew of eleven men gradually pry up a fallen idol with poles, and then insert rocks under it until it could be lifted to its feet. It took 18 days. Convinced that the mayor possessed a secret handed down through ten generations, Heyerdahl asked why Atan had never revealed it before. "No one asked me," said the mayor...
...Split Idol. Gage's last major adventure as a missionary was a bold and dramatic episode. With an Indian guide, armed companions and his "blackamoor" bodyguard, he walked into a deserted cave where ancient Indian deities were still worshiped. Coming upon a grim idol and ignoring its scowl, he ordered the idol removed. In church next Sunday, he preached on the text: "Thou shalt not have strange gods before me." At a suitable moment the friar produced the idol and had it chopped to pieces with an ax and burnt. Later the idolaters had Gage cudgeled, stabbed...
Author Agnes Boulton begins her story in 1917, five years after the end of Long Day's Journey, when O'Neill's first one-acters were making him the symbol and idol of the Provincetown Players. If, after 40 years, Author Boulton's memory is correct and young Eugene Gladstone O'Neill did woo and win her with the lines she attributes to him, it is no wonder that much of the story reads like a parody of Victorian melodrama. O'Neill once explained that he had trained himself as a playwright by reading...
...locked for months in bitter cold war with the Kremlin, embarrassedly denied that Nasser had gone back for Tito's advice before rushing to Moscow, insisted that Nasser must have gone ashore in Albania and taken a plane from there. The Russians, with widespread pleasure, proclaimed that the idol of the Arab masses had once again been their guest, this time to seek their help against the "American aggressors." But from Cairo came a wholly different version, indicating that Nasser's main purpose in flying to Moscow was to appeal to Khrushchev not to take any warlike action...