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...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Part 2 of "Ethiopia: The Lion and the Cross," includes an interview with Emperor Haile Selassie...
Fortunately, the writing of Carter Wilson '63 and Max Byrd '64, rescues the Lion Rampant from total mediocrity...
...best piece of writing which appears in the Lion Rampant is Carter Wilson's "Mrs. Sessions Attends Church." The story is a chapter from a novel on which Wilson is working, but it can stand by itself. Wilson's use of language is simply marvelous. He can compress a whole range of ideas into a single line. He has an acute eye for small details, but--unlike Mr. Littlejohn--also possesses artistic ability to make the detail an integral part of his characterization and plot development. He portrays his main character and the movement of her thoughts with remarkable perception...
...Lion Rampant contains a lot of sludge, but the writing of Wilson and Byrd may make it worth a twenty-five cent investment...
London, 1189: the coronation of King Richard Coeur de Lion. Suddenly a Jew, pushing through the assembled throng to present a gift to the new King, jostled a Christian. "Assassins," cried the Christian, and the mob turned savagely on the hated and distrusted Jewish delegation. Beating, kicking and slashing, the Christians surged through the Jewish quarter of London putting the torch to its tinderbox houses. From the capital, the flames of anti-Semitism fanned northward into Cambridge, Norwich, Lincoln, and finally to the city of York, where in an orgy of bloodletting the city's Jewish population was systematically...