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...heyday of the hero, history was a game with few players, and a single man could more readily change it all. The Greeks were losing the Trojan war until Achilles was coaxed from his tent. Horatius defended Rome's bridge with only two friends, and even as late as 1528, Pizarro could overthrow the mighty Inca civilization with only 167 men -less than the number commanded by Captain William Carpenter in that recent local battle in Viet Nam. Now with a cast of many thousands or millions, each leader heads only a segment, and decision is often a synthesis...
...background. The doctor has obviously been up all night, brooding, worrying, waiting-probably in part because he did not know what else to do. In today's medicine, both the scene and the sentiment are badly out of date. The child would be in an oxygen tent in a hospital, festooned with tubes, watched over by bustling nurses or electronic monitors, banished from her parents (visiting hours, 9-11 a.m.), and lucky to get a brief visit from the doctor once or twice a day. Instead of Old Doc's bedside manner, the modern physician depends...
...perfect spring vacation. As Robin Duke, wife of U.S. Ambassador to Spain Angier Biddle Duke, pictured the annual fair in Seville, it was the essence of Spain, a six-day post-Lenten fiesta with superb bull fighting, Andalusian flamenco dancing all night long in the fair's tent village, colorful parades and a marvelous ball. What's more, the Duchess of Alba would be all too glad to have Jacqueline Kennedy as her guest...
Architecture has broken out of the glass-and-steel box that long held sway, and which itself represented a rebellion against older forms. A new skyscraper may be built in the shape of an obelisk, a new air terminal constructed on the principle of an Arab's silken tent, a new garage like a Pueblo chiefs dwelling. Among the most daring patrons of the new architecture are U.S. churches, Mrs. Porter Brown, general secretary of the Methodist Board of Missions, argued recently that cathedrals were symbolic of a static community, while today's churches should be "fellowship buildings...
...pretty, skittish twin sister are unwittingly trapped in the warfare between a cell of Black Muslim-type activists and a clutch of Negro-baiting neoFascists. Eventually the twins bob up at an international Fascist jamboree atop Mount Parnassus, where the Negroes attack the Fascists in their meeting-tent, then rape and murder the sister. The hero escapes to go home to pamphleteer in the cause of tolerance, and to get himself happily married. "The answer to everything," he concludes, is contained "within the magic of reciprocal love." Author Benedictus' discursive, Edwardian elegance of style is amusingly suited to satirizing...