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...saint dionysos, earlier refuge...
...tall, husky career Army man, Mitchell was one of 15 children of the black pastor of Rasberry Baptist Church in Saint Francisville, La. He entered the Army in 1960 and served in Korea and Hawaii before going to Viet Nam in December 1967. He loved the Army, and recently, when asked to describe himself, replied, "I'm a hell of a soldier." He told a news conference last month that he had seen no massacre at My Lai and doubted that one had taken place. Last week in Washington he said simply, "I am not guilty...
Henry Ford: In politics, he "has seldom been taken seriously," but "he has an interesting and sympathetic face and manner, looking rather like an ascetic saint...
Bruegel's most overtly political pictures are disguised by their ostensible subjects: The Massacre of the Innocents, The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist, The Road to Calvary, and The Conversion of Saint Paul. Safe themes-but not as handled by Bruegel. He trundled the terrible urgency of the Bible, like a siege tower, straight up against contemporary walls. His Massacre, for instance, takes place in a Flemish village of his own day. Walloon redcoats butcher baby after baby on the shining snow. Mothers and fathers pray, scream, struggle and reach out in vain. Spain's notorious "Edict...
...Drop sacred names, but be sure which names to drop. Remember the basic rule: the safest saint is a dead saint -Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Frantz Fanon. Be particularly careful about bringing up Herbert Marcuse. His importance, Carl Oglesby warns, may have been "badly overstated." "He is not the kind of writer whose books explode one out of the study." (The cardinal sin of the New Left writer is to keep his readers off the streets...