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...third generation has lost the lust for power but kept the impulse toward God. Young Haguenier, Herbert's son, is a moonstruck knight who has chosen to serve a frigid beauty and waits in vain for her to thaw. It is hard to believe that any man, saint or fool, would observe the for mal demands of chivalry and obey each of his lady's whims (such as entering a joust in which his only shield is a mirror that must not be damaged). But Haguenier fulfills all his "trials" until he is driven to drink and finally...
...easily," says Stainless, "but the word matrimony jest turns mah spine to jelly." His generosity often leads to trouble. For the past two months Stainless has been acting as the target for a knife-throwing TV star named Hazie Blur-Blur who cannot see without glasses but is too vain to wear them all the time. Stainless took the job after her other partner quit, because Hazie told him that she would lose a $1,000,000 inheritance she intended to use to build a playground, if she discontinued her act. For his good Samaritanism, this week Stainless...
Modern Christians may well find some use for some of the pilgrim's practical pointers, such as the warning against letting prayer get sidetracked by "spiritual" thoughts. "If the [Devil] cannot turn us from prayer by means of vain thoughts and sinful ideas, then he . . . fills us with beautiful ideas, so that one way or another he may lure us away from prayer, which is a thing he cannot bear . . . [My teacher] taught me . . . not to admit during times of prayer even the most lofty of spiritual thoughts. And if I saw that, in the course...
Ickes saw himself as a modest man. He was genuinely hurt when he was portrayed, at a Gridiron Club dinner, as a strutting, vain Donald Duck. Said he: "Of course this was really offensive . . . No man is a judge of himself, but I have completely fooled myself if I give the impression to anyone that I am conceited and possess a feeling of superiority over other men." Yet Ickes could describe his part in a political radio debate in these words: "He [Ickes' opponent] expected the head-down, arm-flailing rush, trying to beat him into a corner...
...vain and ambitious Colonel Pausanias Katsotas, 65, could not stand his postwar obscurity. "Why shouldn't I be running Greece?" he asked. He got a routine promotion to general, but could not earn a place in any of Greece's postwar anti-Communist Cabinets; he did so poorly in the 1947-50 anti-Communist war that Field Marshal Alexander Papagos relieved him of his command. General Katsotas brooded revenge...