Word: warriorism
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Emplaning in Portland, Ore. that night, Stevenson and Kefauver sat together, sipped on a bourbon and soda each, grabbed bits and snatches of sleep before arriving at Sioux City, Iowa's Sheraton-Warrior Hotel at 3 a.m. Just before the plane landed, a reporter asked Stevenson how he could smile after such a man-killing day. Said he: "You know, at just about the same hour as this, someone asked me why I ever went into politics. I said it was because I was drafted...
...large extent, therefore, the men of ideas have been merely cultivating their own gardens. Instead of one mission, they have many: they live as both a part of society and apart from it. The artist's fate, says Critic Edmund Wilson, is like that of Philoctetes, the Greek warrior who was forced to live in isolation because of the stench of his wound, but whose comrades kept coming back to him because they needed his magic bow. So it has been with the intellectual to whom the nation goes for the expert's answer, and otherwise tends...
...pomp and circumstance worthy of his impressive titles, a bespectacled Nepalese named Mahendra was last week crowned King of Kings, Five Times Godly, Valorous Warrior and Divine Emperor. With the towering Himalayas as a backdrop, and money no object, it was the subcontinent's party of the year. Everybody was anxious to make the coronation a thumping success. Distrusting the manners of their local waiters, the Nepalese had imported 130 skilled servitors from India to minister to the distinguished guests. The best chef in town was sprung from jail (where he was serving a sentence for bootlegging) to supervise...
...Holy Roman Empire. In Britain, however, killjoy scholars stuffily pointed out that Sir Winston is merely a collateral descendant of the great Marlborough-and that only eight years after the princedom† was established it became, through a territorial reshuffle, extinct. Only title thus left to Churchill by his warrior forebear: Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (a tired old title not recognized in England...
...pretentious, but the idea is certainly as ambitious. Whether the critics rave again remains to be seen. But few will think that Greek drama has died at Harvard after the show has closed.For the 1906 production of Agamemnon, the Harvard Stadium was filled with a rather unusual brand of warrior...