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...sharing his attributes is no longer possible." The decline began, Harper suggests, with Copernicus and Galileo, who demonstrated that the earth was not the center of the universe and that man is therefore not the center of creation. Darwin described man as a pawn of evolution, Freud as a puppet of the unconscious, Marx and other determinists as a prisoner of an abstraction called history. "Show our critics a great man, a Luther for example," complained Carlyle. "He was the 'creature of the Time,' they say; the Time called him forth, the Time did everything, he nothing...
...election results shed considerably less credit on the white voters of Alabama, who overwhelmingly endorsed Lurleen Wallace as her segregationist husband's puppet candidate in a cynical attempt to evade the state's constitutional provision that prohibits a Governor from succeeding himself (see following story). Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King denounced Lurleen's victory as "a protest vote against the tide of inevitable progress...
...possibly the last big try for power by Colombia's aging (66) ex-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. On the eve of last week's presidential elections, Rojas drafted a puppet candidate, scheduled a whirlwind campaign of the countryside, and gave his man the same big buildup that had helped Rojas' party win 18% of the vote in the congressional elections last March. In the end, it wasn't enough. For the third time, the country's eight-year-old National Front coalition won the presidency. The winner by a better than two-to-one margin...
Dispensable Cog. Regardless of the sinuous internal motives behind the uprising, many U.S. editorialists and cartoonists faulted President Johnson for Ky's plight, arguing that the Administration had been overly enthusiastic in its support of the Premier, making him appear an American puppet in the eyes of his countrymen. In fact, Johnson had been scrupulously careful in his meeting with Ky, proceeding on the logical assumption that Ky was no more expendable than any of the other nine members of the Saigon junta. Indeed, Ky has never considered himself an indispensable cog in the Saigon government. A few months...
...Vienna, Conductor Julius Rudel spent endless hours building miniature theaters and staging puppet operas-Salome in a shoe box, Parsifal in a packing crate. The training proved to be apt preparation for his job as director of the New York City Opera. For the past eight years, operating on a budget that would pass for carfare at the Metropolitan Opera, he has been nurturing his company in a glorified Manhattan shoe box called City Center. Last week, like slum kids transported to the country, Rudel and his 200-member troupe moved into the spacious luxury of the New York State...