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...Connolly kept Horizon's standards up and its voice down, made the magazine a kind of semiprecious touchstone of the arts. Earnest literati in England and the U.S. used it to deck their coffee tables and to restock their mental shelves. In The Golden Horizon, Connolly picks a scant 600 pages to represent the original 10,000. The result suggests that Horizon often held a monocle rather than a mirror up to nature. But caught in its faintly supercilious eye is a fair share of minor modern masterpieces...
...called Ladinos; the rest white. Nearly two-thirds are illiterate, and more than half of the illiterates do not even speak Spanish, using Indian dialects instead; 64% go barefoot. Nominally Roman Catholic, the Indians celebrate Christian festivals with pagan gusto, consult witch doctors oftener than the country's scant 200 priests. Guatemala City, the capital, is the only sizable city, with 293,000 residents; Quezaltenango, runner...
with a huge fund of gold reserves, possibly $10 billion. But there is scant support in Washington for such a plan...
Templer's orders were 1) to smash the Communists, 2) to weld Malayans-Malays, Chinese, Indians and British alike-into a sturdy, self-governing democracy within the Commonwealth. Objective No. 2 was impossible in a scant two years, yet Templer pledged himself, "mind and body," to fight for this political, economic and social "second front." He brought to his job demoniac energy, a streak of ruthlessness, a flair for jungle fighting (he once was bayonet fighting champion of the British army) and a sensibility that dumfounded those leftist British critics who had objected to his appointment out of fear...
...glass house." Louis XIV had patiently endured this goldfish life. His successor. Louis XV who became King when he was only five years old, rebelled before he was out of his teens. He built into Versailles a private snuggery known as "the little apartments" (a scant 50 rooms and seven bathrooms), and when this, in turn, became too public, Louis chopped it into smaller and smaller hideouts. In these "rats' nests" (as one courtier contemptuously described them), the King's absolute power lay hidden like the germ in a seed of wheat. The bulk of the palace...