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Finally stirring, Yamamoto sent a message of MacArthurian unreality: "The enemy fleet, which has practically been destroyed, is retiring to the east . . . Immediately contact and destroy the enemy." As a further measure, he also relieved Nagumo of his command. And imperial headquarters said a great triumph had been achieved, bringing "supreme power in the Pacific...
...cheeks, a cervical collar ever at his neck, Marcos insisted he was too sick to travel to New York City for arraignment on charges of racketeering and real estate fraud. Still, he argued he was up to a trip to the Philippines, ready to win back his kingdom in MacArthurian style. Hawaii, Marcos proclaimed, was only his Elba. Everyone else knew it was St. Helena...
...SEVENTEEN years later, Mailer is back at the top, a master of a new form--nonfiction infused with all the technique and daring of the novelist. His recovery from the strain of the novel has taken the route of retreat, with the MacArthurian pledge that he will one day return to the grail to overshadow his The Naked and The Dead. Since Armies of the Night in 1967, Mailer's reputation has been restored to prominence; the decade of inattention was revealed to have wounded Mailer but not to have changed his direction. In Armies of the Night, Mailer mentions...
...Kolwezi with the mercenaries. There were rumors that he might flee to Europe rather than give in to the U.N. But he was not surrendering Katanga's top job. Lo and behold, he was back in Elisabethville. "in spite of all the trouble and bloodshed," he declared with MacArthurian grandeur, "I am back." What policy would he follow? No one could say, for before long he was bouncing wildly from one position to another. "Pure India rubber," marveled a foreign diplomat...
...minutes, and the plane landed in a fog so dense that an American Legion color guard ceremoniously marched into a fence. The general at first failed to see the crowd, and got into his car. But then he spotted his admirers and climbed out to give Los Angeles a MacArthurian accolade. Its conclusion: "There are no lost horizons here except in the matchless imagery of your studios...