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Smiling, relaxed, he rambled on, hopelessly out of touch with any acceptable reality: "...As T.S. Eliot once told me,...hmn, ha ha,...and thus, you know, a novus homo, ho ho, ...and therefore, Robert Browning stands as...hee hee, `...the boy stood on the burning deck,' ...Michael Blumenthal 'hath perced to the roote,' ...on the other hand...I'm Spartacus...
...have trouble making himself heard, and he blamed the press for concentrating on the Carter-Kennedy struggle. As Brown straggled along he began paying more and more heed to an assortment of eccentrics who had attached themselves to the fringes of his entourage. Among them were members of Novus, an amorphous organization that takes its name from a Latin motto on the Great Seal of the U.S., Novus ordo seclorum, meaning New Order of the Ages. According to Bill Whitson, 53, one of the group's founders, who is currently on a leave of absence from his post...
...source of revolutionary hope. But the modern sin of overstatement runs away with Revel. Before he can stop, he is dreaming of a revolution that will spread from the U.S. by "a sort of political osmosis" until it arrives at its logical conclusion: "world government" and-glory, glory-"Homo novus, a new man very different from other...
...Novus Ordo Seclorum...
...olive in one talon, a clawful of arrows in the other. And alongside will appear the little-known reverse of the Great Seal (see cut): an unfinished pyramid dated 1776; above it, the allegorical eye of God and the words Annuit Coeptis (He favored our undertakings); below it, Novus Ordo Seclorum (A new order of the ages; i. e., a New Deal in the language...