Word: mortalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Agilulf, the Nonexistent Knight, is so perfect a knight that his body has turned entirely to armor. He cannot be wounded in battle, scorns his fellow knights who must care for their flesh. But he often longs for a mortal body. His armor is "pierced through every chink by gusts of wind, flights of mosquitoes, and the rays of the moon." For other knights love is spiritual by choice; Agilulf has no choice. When a maiden he has rescued invites him to bed, poor metallic Agilulf hems and haws, makes and remakes the bed, finally finds a knightly excuse...
...long last, Spain's Francisco Franco faced up to the fact that he is mortal. For 25 years, the Spanish dictator has stubbornly clung to all the reins of power and refused publicly to designate a successor. Last week, giving way to growing pressure for change and acknowledging his 69 years, Franco did what few dictators have the nerve to do: selected an heir apparent. His choice: tough, crusty Captain General Agustin Munoz Grandes, 66, chief of the Spanish General Staff and an old friend of El Candillo's (see box). Munoz Grandes was named to the newly...
Ship of Fools, by Katherine Anne Porter. A monument to mortal folly, ashore and afloat...
...performing feats of verbal wire-walking, all to take a distraught Lesbian's mind off her wandering mate. "Do you know," he says in lyrical exasperation, "what has made me the greatest liar this side of the moon? Telling my stories to people like you, to take the mortal agony out of their guts, and stop them from rolling about, and drawing up their feet, and screaming, with their eyes staring over their knuckles...
Some magazines that manage to pay their own way also stand in serious if not mortal danger. Last year, for example, four magazines addressed primarily to contemplative readers-Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Catholic Digest and Saturday Review-together netted only $55,74° on a combined circulation of 1,557,000. The new postal rates would add some $535,000 to their combined postal bill. Atlantic Monthly Publisher Donald Snyder has estimated that his magazine's share alone would be $91,000-more than seven times Atlantic's 1961 profit before taxes...