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...mission's chief, blimpish Colonel Burling; he finds an understanding friend in Ernestina Manriquez, neglected wife of a rich landowner. From her he regains the "sense of recklessness, the grandeur of being a man, being male." But it is from his new friend Vicente Hidalgo, a revolutionist gone to seed and now a tosspot clairvoyant, that Harmon regains a larger sense of manhood...
...Stalin just an opportunist, saying and doing what seems best - for him - at the moment? Many Americans believe that, and thereby lose an opportunity to understand what threatens them. Stalin's line shifts. Sometimes he acts like a flaming revolutionist, sometimes like a good fellow who just wants to get along. The latter aspect is especially prominent in interviews given by Stalin over the years to visiting writers from the West. The confusion adds up to the "inscrutable Stalin," the man nobody knows. This misconception about Stalin is one of the most important facts of world politics today...
...classic example of the son of wealth who becomes a revolutionist. His inability to cope with the problems of business drove him to search for a new career; his increased taxes, which he believed were greater than any paid in England, gave him a sense of personal grievance; his ability to pay for wine and fireworks for his supporters made him popular; his vanity and his love of display made him malleable in the hands of politicians; his property helped to make the revolution seem respectable, and his essential conservatism made him a valuable check against the radicals...
Other stories still make exciting reading. Richard Harding Davis gives a clean, dramatic report of a Cuban revolutionist's gallant death before a firing squad (1897) and leaves him "asleep in the wet grass, with his motionless arms still tightly bound behind him, with the scapular twisted awry across his face, and the blood from his breast sinking into the soil he had tried to free." Winifred Black, the original sob sister, sets the pattern for countless future sob sister leads with "I begged, cajoled and cried my way through the line of soldiers" to get into Galveston after...
Vegetarians & Geniuses. In the Boston of the 1840s there could be found every variety of reformer, revolutionist and enthusiast: God-intoxicated Transcendentalists, fire-eating and angular Abolitionists, chest-heaving Fourierists, nutty nudists, and somber lady reformers whose figures Henry James was later aspishly to describe as having "no more outline than a bundle of hay." But in the midst of all this intellectual mooning there was great and solid achievement; this was the New England of Emerson and Hawthorne, of Thoreau, Lowell and Longfellow-the golden age of American letters...