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...WARRIOR SAINT (302 pp.)-R.V. C. Bodley-Little, Brown...
...water-skis, sails, chases fish underwater with a spear, dives for spiny lobsters in the kelp beds, pries abalones off rocks. In quiet moments he sits on his porch, a high dive from the water, and feeds bagels to sea gulls. It is a pleasant life for a relaxing warrior, but always some odd airplane is waiting behind the mountains...
...Knights of Malta are historically men of privilege and resiliency. After their emergence during the 12th century as a crusading order of warrior-clerics, they built up strong dynasties in Palestine, Rhodes and Malta successively; it took Napoleon's army to end their temporal dominion in 1798. For the last century and a half, they have devoted themselves to works of charity. Although most of them are now laymen, the highest degree of the Knights, as always, has been bound by religious vows, and membership in the order, for all except the lowest category, has been restricted...
Family: A bachelor, youngest son of an aristocratic Swedish family of civil servants and army men that traces its nobility to a 17th century warrior knighted for bravery in a war against the Danes. His father, Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, 91, was World War I Prime Minister of Sweden. A brother, now dead, was a judge at the Court of International Justice, The Hague...
Cuchulain, the legendary Irish warrior, is the hero of the group of verse plays. Yeats drew largely on Irish folklore and the peculiar culture for the theme of his works...