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...ascent of Everest, for example, he told admiring fellow South Tyroleans, "I do this for myself because I am my own fatherland, and my handkerchief is my flag." On talk-show stints, he tends to shout down other guests. Indeed, a mountaineer who has known him for years thinks fame has been hard on a man who finds peace in solitude: "Everyone wants to get in touch with him. Everybody wants to shake his hand." He is divorced from West German Journalist Uschi Demeter, and lately, says one Messner watcher, "it seems there is a different woman in every base...
Walker's first foray into show business fame was as undergraduate in the University of Southern California, where he penned the universally known "Charge Song...
Chamberlain had what he considered a golden opportunity to guarantee world peace. History recorded him as a well-intentioned but unrealistic pacifist. President Reagan had a similar opportunity in Iceland early this week. But the President rightly refused to submit to the allure of world fame if it meant sacrificing the security of this country for the sake of a premature and uncontemplated shift in the world's balance of power...
...that I don't have to pay all that alimony") to a tearstained, self-blaming recollection of his sister Rose's lobotomy. Eerily, even at his most private and abandoned moments, this Williams surreptitiously watches what impact he is having on his audience. However much he may mistrust fame, he hungers for it; death is discussed chiefly in terms of how much space his obituary would merit in the New York Times...
...that were disrupting Christendom. But by A.D. 400 he was turning to the state to enforce doctrinal conformity. St. Jerome, the translator of the Latin Bible, wrote approvingly, "Catholics revere you and accept you as the second founder of the ancient faith, and -- which is a mark of greater fame -- all the heretics hate you." Indeed, one band of them almost managed to assassinate the troublesome bishop. Augustine's reliance on the state began a millennium of alliances between cross and crown, officially repudiated by Catholicism only...