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The classic heroes, in the words of U.C.L.A.'s late Historian Dixon Wecter, "were taller by a head than any of their tribesmen, could cut iron with their swords, throw the bar farther or wind the horn louder than their fellows-Achilles and Ulysses, Siegfried and Roland, Beowulf and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON THE DIFFICULTY OF BEING A CONTEMPORARY HERO | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

Home Crusades. The anti-Jewish polemic was not uncommon to the militant and quite intolerant 12th century British church, which had already sent two crusades against infidels, and under Richard the Lionhearted was raising a third. Zealous Christians, certain that the Last Judgment was just around the corner, and eager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Unburied Cross | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

Surely Prince Sihanouk would do justice to the great tradition of his illustrious ancestors, the Khmers, if he were to shelve his wondrous scheme of contriving an international guarantee for Cambodia's freedom, and take the rugged road the lionhearted should roam.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Apr. 17, 1964 | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

Surely Prince Sihanouk would do justice to the great tradition of his illustrious ancestors, the Khmers, if he were to shelve his wondrous scheme of contriving an international guarantee for Cambodia's freedom, and take the rugged road the lionhearted should roam.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 17, 1964 | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

Wayward Boy-King. However such opinions may strike the West, they convince Sihanouk's own people. Of all the rulers of Southeast Asia, he is probably the most popular inside his own country, partly because he has an aura both of divine kingship and grass-roots politics. Sihanouk succeeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: The Prince & the Dragon | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

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