Word: warriorism
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Such an old warrior is Malcolm Muggeridge [Jan. 6]. "Compulsive readability" he has indeed, but deeper yet, the reader senses a whole man, responding to the falseness, betrayal and insatiety (to use Philip Wylie's expression) of much of modern life. It will be sad if Muggeridge ever rebounds all the way over to the tight little camp of religious orthodoxy. Understandable, but sad. For then free men might lose a vigorous spokesman, standing in the unaffrightable position of Emerson's thinking man, sending out his shafts wherever merited...
Most Frenchmen seem a little bored with the grandeur of De Gaulle. These days, they find glory enough in a little Gallic warrior who has a droopy yellow mustache and wears a winged beanie, whose force de frappe is not a nuclear bomb but a magic potion that contains-as a bow to the French palate-lobster. The whole nation has come to adore a comic-book hero whose name suggests a mere footnote to history. He is Astérix Le Gaulois, leader of a hilarious village of "unsubdued and irksome" Gauls still holding out against Caesar...
...French satellite launched into orbit was nicknamed Astérix. This year, French children are asking Père Noël for the Astérix costumes, dolls and masks that are being sold all over the country. Huge papier-mâché models of the little warrior and his blimpish, pigtailed companion Obélix stare down from Christmas displays in department stores. More than 3,600,000 copies of eight hard-cover Astérix comic books have been sold, and several American publishers have proposed an English-language translation...
Died. Robert Geronimo, 77, Apache Warrior Geronimo's last surviving son, who was born after his dread dad's surrender to the U.S. Army (ending decades of terrorizing the Southwest), lived with his mother, Kate Cross-Eyes, on the Mescalero, N. Mex., Indian reservation, where he was a farmer and an occasional adviser on Apache movies; of pneumonia; in Mescalero...
...reception awaited him after he crossed the international dateline. At New Zealand's Ohakea Royal Air Force Station, a grimacing Maori with a poised spear advanced on the Johnsons in the traditional "friend or foe?" challenge. In tribute to the first U.S. President to visit his country, the warrior dropped two darts at his feet (Queen Elizabeth rates three...