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...pawpaw trees for a better look; Kikuyu women showed up with their faces and bodies ceremonially daubed with bright paint. They banged on drums, cheered and sang Jomo Kenyatta Is Coming Home At Last, a song especially composed for the occasion. The Burning Spear (a Kikuyu title for the bravest warrior of all) acknowledged the greeting with an imperious wave of his horsetail fly whisk, then briskly got down to the business of making peace between Kenya's two leading political parties-the K.A.D.U. and K.A.N.U.-who have been feuding interminably over who did the most to get Jomo...
Donald Davis' Achilles and Colgate Salsbury's Potroclus are smooth, beautifully adjusted performances. There is no attempt to hide their homosexuality; in fact, their spiritual and physical love is made quite obvious, yet without a trace of effeminacy--which is precisely right for the bravest of the Greeks and his protege. The comedy here lies in their identical wardrobes: whither thou goest, I will go; where thou Iodgest, I will lodge; and what thou wearest, I will wear...
Every boot who ever lived has had the lesson drummed into his shaved head: the U.S. Marine Corps is the best goddam outfit that ever existed. Its traditions are the most glorious, its battles the bloodiest, its men the bravest...
...Captain Manuel Rojo del Rio, an old fighting comrade of Castro who lately has borne the title of Cuba's paratroop commander, defected while on a visit to Costa Rica. Of Castro he said: "There is something in his eyes that frightens even the bravest man. They reflect madness." Rojo called Fidel's brother. Armed Forces Chief Raúl Castro, a "vindictive jelly bean" with a "resentment against the masculine type of man," and said that "all .his aides are Communists...
Thus could we say to those five decades hence, "These have we chosen, these have we honored." And they would know that these men had been the bravest, wisest, and most upright of our time. Our obligation would be fulfilled, our duty done, yet no factional strife would today disturb...