Word: excalibur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other. As a fish, the Wart learns self-preservation from a pike; as a hawk, he acquires courage. He gets a taste of the 20th century totalitarian state by spending time in an ant colony, whose anthem is Antland, Antland Over All. Almost by accident, he comes across Excalibur...
...fields with a brace of bulls when blind old Ambrosius, one of the last of the Roman legionaries, by title the Count of Britain, stumbles upon him. By the old man's side walks Medrodus, his heir apparent, and at his side hangs a lustrous sword (Excalibur of old), sole remaining symbol of legal Roman power. No Lady of the Lake hands Artos the sword; he filches it. When Medrodus protests, Artos sinks the sword deep in an oak bole (instead of the anvil imbedded in stone of Malory's story), and after a grunt-and-sweat match...
...Savoy's current attraction, Leroy Parkins and his Excalibur Band, is typical of a straight-Dixie policy which is only slightly modern...
...developing this theme, Truman gave his successor some pointed advice. "Out of ... the political arena, a new and different President emerged-the man who led a political party to victory and retained in his hands the power of party leadership. That is, he retained it, like the sword Excalibur, if he could wrest it from the block and wield it." Presidential words carry great weight, said the ex-President, but they must be backed up by action: "Today there is the same need for a combination of words and action concerning the hysteria about Communism ... It is not the business...
...doughty Val, Robert Wagner is false to Harold Foster's hero. The King Syndicate Viking prince is merely a good natured simpleton, not an active dolt. But if Wagner's poor acting makes Val's claim to the sword Excalibur and a seat at the Round table seem bogus, it also makes one question his right to annoy Miss Leigh and hide her from the camera. This comes of sending a squire to do a knight...