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...grim, radical dogma that swept Britain after World War I. Youth today is not so much flaming to be free as burning to acquire discipline. It was Wyndham Lewis' ferocious hatred of what he called "emotionally excited, closely-packed, heavily-standardized mass-units acting in a blond ecstatic unison" that caused his unpopularity in the '305. although he himself acted in unison of a sort with the Hitler regime-but only for a very brief spell...
Ride of the Navajos. His son, William Blankenship Jr., was 15: a handsome, blond six-footer who played football, did well in Mount St. Michael Academy, wanted to go to the Air Force Academy. He was walking to an evening movie with a friend when a gang of leather-jacketed toughs called the Navajos swarmed around, yelling: "Do you live around here? Aren't you in the Golden Guineas?" The Navajos and Golden Guineas are rival gangs; young Bill Blankenship belonged to neither. "I don't know what you're talking about," he said...
Expressionlessly, the handsome man with the greying blond hair and pale blue eyes read his own name aloud from ballot after ballot: "Gronchi . . . Gronchi . . . Gronchi . . ." At the 422nd time, the assembled Deputies and Senators of Italy's Parliament broke into applause, and Giovanni Gronchi, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, stopped reading and rose to acknowledge the cheers. He had just been elected President of the Republic of Italy...
...slambang afternoon, including a few gashed faces, a lot of body bruises and an occasional bloody shin. Blond Ron Beagle, who offsets his clumsiness with the crosse by his ferocious shoulder blocks, rattled ribs all over the field. It was just this sort of overaggressive play that meant the end of Navy's record of 19 straight victories. With the score tied 8-8 in the final quarter, Beagle and a teammate wound up in the penalty box. Maryland's Charlie Wicker, best player on the field, promptly set up the play that scored the winning goal...
...year-old Walter Francis White, the Atlanta race riots of 1906 (described later in his autobiography), were more than a horrifying sight. But for the fact that he was blond and pink-cheeked, White might have been the victim of the mob himself. Yet from that dreadful day on, he elected to remain, fiercely and proudly, a member of the Negro race...