Word: latter-day
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...with a slave harem of 117 beauties from Malaya, Java, Bali and points east. A former partner and prior claimant, John Clunies-Ross, a Scot, soon showed up with his family and a crew of predatory bachelors. To keep them out of what he called his "flower garden," the latter-day Solomon ladled out rum to Ross's men, penned his women in a stockade on another island, and kept them busy husking coconuts from dawn to dusk...
Brooklyn-born Napoleon, 51, thinks of his return as a kind of mission. Somewhere, he feels, jazzmen have gotten off the track, both the latter-day Dixielanders and the bopsters, who seldom let you hear the tune. "These kids, now, all on a 'progressive' kick, don't know what they're listening to because they don't know where it came from." Phil Napoleon is doing what he can to set things straight by taking the young crowd back to first principles: "This music we're playing...
...four days, talk of modern medicine was barred from Paris' Maison de la Médecine. The squat hall, across the square from Napoleon's tomb, was taken over by the latter-day devotees of a "healing" art older than Western civilization itself: the International Society of Acupuncture. His Imperial Highness Prince Buu Loc, Vietnamese Ambassador to France, assured the 350 delegates from 16 countries that the Western world was at last recognizing the virtues of acupuncture -the ancient Chinese custom of giving the patient the needles...
...Author Carl Jonas' novel (a February Book-of-the-Month Club choice), it unwraps not a man but a mummy. For Jeff Selleck has not sprung from the soil of the creative imagination; he has been raised from the dust of the literary graveyard. He is a latter-day George Babbitt a westernized George Apley, a bewildered Willy Loman, stained with the pathos oJ success. Whenever Sinclair Lewis, John Marquand or Arthur Miller fail him, Author Jonas falls back on George Gallup. Jeff Selleck's life is the stuff life insurance actuary tables are made...
...good bedside manner. Off duty, he indulged his yen for the fanciful in a voyage to India, a flyer in Paraguayan railway shares, a children's book about Noah's Ark. The strains of 20th century life left him wishing, now & then, for a good latter-day ark. In 1923, a friend startled him by announcing that "a small group of people now in London . . . has started building one." When Walker asked for the new Noah's name, he was told: "Gurdjieff...