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...surviving Nasser, but Algeria is more North African than Middle Eastern, somewhat remote from the center of the conflict. Libya's Gaddafi may consider himself a successor, but he is too new, too brash and too untested for other Arab leaders to accept him. Saudi Arabia's Feisal, as keeper of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, has long dreamed of claiming Arab leadership on religious grounds. But Feisal's government is so medieval that few young Arabs would follow him. Guerrilla Leader Yasser Arafat rules no country and thus lacks a true power base, even though he does...
...child's buddy. I am his keeper...
Finally the first event, for accuracy, begins. A range of plywood sheets covered with butcher paper is laid out. Official Scorer Johnny Little, known as "the keeper of the cuspidor," cautions: "No licorice or other foreign matter mixed in." One by one the spitters toe the line, legs spread. They draw two fingers to the ends of their mouths, rock back like drawn bowstrings and let fly toward a distant spittoon. Don Snyder reaches the finals but loses the accuracy contest to Hulon Craft, a distant nephew of old George. Hulon comes to within 1 ½ inches of a spittoon...
...self with which the poet creates is sequestered in a far corner of the soul, deeply hidden from any scholar's scrutiny. "The genius of Keats," said Irving Babbitt, "is precisely that part of him that cannot be explained by the fact that he was the son of the keeper of a London livery stable." "Can any biography," said Emerson, "shed light on the localities into which the Midsummer Night's Dream admits me? Did Shakespeare confide to any notary or parish recorder, sacristan, or surogate, in Stratford, the genesis of the delicate creation?" And George Steiner, writing of Painter...
Playwright Charles Gordone will be featured on another right to discuss his widely-acclaimed three-act play, No Place To Be Somebody -the drama about a young and ambitious black saloon-keeper in an urban ghetto. Gordone's play is a brilliant affirmation of his own black ethos, yet it has achieved universal magnitude in the power of its characterizations...