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...manliness of the gaucho, the straightforward heterosexuality of the playboy. "The kind of man that men follow and women chase" is how one Peruvian woman defines it. But the trait goes farther than simple male ego. It turns arguments into blood feuds, business dealings into tests of strength, and heroic revolutionaries into ruthless tyrants. Says the Mexican poet Octavio Paz: "One word sums up the aggressiveness, insensitivity, invulnerability and other attributes of the macho: power. It is force without discipline or any notion of order; arbitrary power, the will without reins and without a set course...
...word manuscript was completed in six months. It takes the full measure of his illustrious career-World War I, his service in the Philippines, the 1932 Bonus March on Washington, which MacArthur, then Army Chief of Staff, stemmed at "the Battle of Anacostia Flats," the heroic triumphs of World War II, and his final recall by President Truman from command in Korea in 1951. "I felt that a mass of misinformation and lack of information required some further exposition of the facts," said the general...
...doctors put the transplanted kidney into the patient's flank. Nature's plumbing is so delicate and complex that the surgical feat of putting a transplanted kidney into its normal place in the human body would have been forbiddingly difficult. And the operation would have been so heroic that a patient as near death as Edith might not have survived...
...rabbit nibbling round fruit on a woven wool square. Textiles-wall hangings for tombs, shirts and coats for the dead-form perhaps the highest level of Coptic art, and the hot, dry desert climate has preserved some of the best examples: representations of everyday occurrences, proud portrayals of heroic scenes, and obedient evocations of saints and holy acts...
...year-old accountant was dying of longstanding kidney disease when he went into Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in January of 1962. Doctors used heroic measures, but it looked like a losing battle. Then another Brigham patient died after a heart operation. The hospital's famous team of kidney-transplant pioneers (TIME, May 3) rushed into action...