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...military, but have simply accepted it on its own terms as the arbiter of national politics and the guardian of the constitution. Unlike the bloody revolutions of most of the Spanish-American nations, Brazil's gentle wrench from Portugal in 1822 did not create a pantheon of army heroes or a military history that put its people in debt to soldiers. Today, Brazil's military organization is run by a bright, intellectual class of officers who are strongly influenced by the tenets of Comtian and Spencerian Positivism.* In a land that is being torn by a struggle between...
...Britain's political pantheon stands one statue raffishly askew, absurd finger-curls atop a drooping, oversized head, a sardonic smile on its decidedly un-English face. Benjamin Disraeli was as unlikely a Prime Minister as England ever had, as prodigal a son as the mother of parliaments ever spawned. During nearly 40 years of Tory leadership, he was hated with rare passion by his enemies, notably Liberal Leader William Gladstone, and often only barely trusted by his own lieutenants. Intrigued more by power than principle, too cynically clever by half in an age craving sober dignity in its statesmen...
...missing from the portrait gallery at the Department of Interior after Albert B. Fall, Warren Harding's Secretary of the Interior, was convicted in 1929 of accepting a $100,000 bribe to lease some California oil lands to a drilling company. Officials removed his picture from the pantheon of former Secretaries and carted it off to storage. There it remained through the years, while Fall fought an appeal through the courts, eventually served a one-year jail term in 1931 and died a broken man in 1944. Last week Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall had the painting brought...
Some of Cerfs competitors readily suggest that he is a creature of his own publicity, a quipster who has parlayed his way into the publishing pantheon through the good offices of television and Joe Miller's joke book. "Bennett," says one fellow publisher, "is not an intellectual. He's not a literary man. He's an entrepreneur, an impresario." But that is only the surface of Cerf. Explains Epstein: "Bennett runs Random House as a conservative branch of show business. The company is vulgar to a degree. But what makes the difference with Bennett is how important...
...KARIYE DJAMI by Paul A. Underwood. 1,208 pages. Pantheon. $55 for the boxed set of three volumes. After the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the Turks plastered over the frescoes and mosaics in the Church of the Monastery of the Chora, perched on a hillside above the Bosporus. It served devout Moslems as the Mosque of Kariye Djami until 1948, when the building was secularized and the Byzantine Institute of the U.S. began the delicate work of cleaning and restoring the art works. Volume I contains a historical introduction and a description of the mosaics and frescoes, which...