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...this point, Vadim's amused, amusing manner suggests that he is merely playing games of love. But suddenly, surreally, as in the cautionary cartoons of Honoré Daumier or Félicien Rops, the mask of painted sophistication is ripped away to reveal the grinning skull with its swarm of worms. In a vicious series of rebounding betrayals, the husband is murdered, the wife is disfigured, the virtuous young mother goes insane...
Western statesmen can draw a profound, though scarcely new, lesson from India's victorious aggression in Goa: that the world's newer nations are going to act in very much the same fashion as its older ones. Which is to say that the newer nations will wage nationalist wars, mask their territorial ambitions with a rhetoric of self-determination and self-defense, and go unpunished...
...cosmic role. Even by 1600 it had become passe to split the ears of the groundlings, and we who are the heirs of the methods can provide Marlowe neither with actors nor audience ready to accept him on his own terms. Still, Maguire's martial bearing and lush voice mask his inadequacies well enough to let the play move ahead without much tedium. Maguire never plumbs any of Tamburlaine's sensitivity in the great soliloquy of Act Four, nor, most disappointing of all, can he overcome enough of his own refinement to be the "scourge...
...verdict was that Rebel's death was caused by a heart attack. Thus the stage was set for Bandera. As the Ukrainian leader hurried up the stairs of his apartment building one afternoon, Stachinsky stepped out of the shadows to meet him. The agent was wearing a gas mask, and in his hand he carried a double-barreled air pistol. Aiming carefully, he fired two pellets into Bandera's face. The capsules exploded on impact, releasing a cloud of cyanide gas. Bandera gasped the fumes and fell unconscious. He died, without gaining consciousness...
Down to the Ranks. Probably no man can use a myth as a mask in this probing century. Lawrence, having finished the private edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom in 1922, tried to lose his identity. Though he had been a colonel at war's end, he enlisted in the R.A.F. as a private soldier under the assumed name of John Hume Ross. In four months the secret was out, and Lawrence was booted out of the service. The next year he was allowed to enlist in the Tank Corps as T. E. Shaw, later transferring to the R.A.F...