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...what he was told. Recalled Coste: "It was necessary to envisage the possibility of opening fire on the mob. 'Will you accept?' General Challe asked. One man said no. Challe asked me. I said yes." In bewilderment, Coste exclaimed to the military court: "Gentlemen, does a uniformed servant of the state have the right to discuss law and obedience to the law?" The testimony of the paratroop colonels, he said, "reveals an extraordinary state of affairs for an army. It shows that for some soldiers, an order is not an order but a basis for discussion...
Shadows in the Grass, by Isak Dinesen. Crystalline recollections, by Denmark's greatly gifted author, of a decade (1921-31) spent in Kenya; her theme, written as an elegy, is the relation of master and servant...
Portraitist's Protest. By the time Lorrain died in Rome in 1682, all France had become the servant of Louis XIV, then halfway through his 72-year reign. The function of the artist was to glorify the Sun King, often as a Roman emperor or a god; and the King had his own esthetic dictator to see that this was done...
...Dinesen has sometimes set her tales. In Shadows, she reminisces about the decade (1921-31) when she ran a coffee plantation in the Ngong hill country of Kenya, an Africa now dead beyond recall and yet startlingly alive in these recollections. Characteristically, her theme -the relation of master and servant-would embarrass many contemporary writers to the roots of their social consciousness, but from her it evokes feudal harmonies rooted in a blood consciousness as profound as the roles of father and son, husband and wife. Her mood-dry, elegiac, wounded yet unbleeding-strongly echoes that of the aristocratic author...
...health commissioner of Detroit and surrounding Wayne County. Angelo sent a reporter around to the doctor with a list of 20 questions (sample: "Does donating blood do a fat person any good?") and asked that the doctor answer them in his official capacity. Unhappily concluding that "as a public servant I have no choice," Dr. Molner supplied answers, which the Free Press doled out in daily columns until its material was all used...