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...free world's-best guidance to the new Secretary of State was the welling, heartfelt tribute that poured out to John Foster Dulles, 71, from around the non-Communist half of the world. Dulles had dedicated his diplomatic career-as Republican servant of the Truman Administration in drawing the Japanese peace treaty, as an architect of the United Nations, and as Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of State for more than six years-to the concept that power must be wielded resolutely so that moral values of natural law and justice may take root worldwide...
...made the biggest headlines. After 19 years of marriage and six children, he ran off with a pretty married neighbor, Mrs. Mamah Borthwick Cheney, built the first Taliesin for her on the ancestral Lloyd-Jones acres outside Spring Green, Wis. The liaison ended in tragedy when a mad Barbados servant burned down the house, murdered Mamah and her two children. Wright's second marriage, to monocled Sculptress Miriam Noel, wore thin in three years. Soon Wright was in the tabloid headlines again, jailed for crossing state borders with a handsome Montenegrin. Olga (Olgivanna) Lazovich, the woman who later became...
...they ponder these pros and cons, Russia's cold-war planners must also be acutely aware of another complicating factor. Abdul Karim Kassem, now the Communists' most useful front man in the Arab world, was once a most useful servant of Nuri asSaid. And so long as Kassem, lifelong conspirator and dissembler, keeps any of the keys of power in Iraq, there is always the chance that he may yet teach Russia a lesson that the West has learned to its sorrow-the lesson that events in the Middle East have their own momentum...
...When the bomb finally goes off, it is not so much an exclamation point as a period to a narrative that has told all but judged nothing. Who is to say that the half-mad sad-sack hero really is different from the nihilist leader, or that the civil servant's allegiance is so far removed from the revolutionary's? Author Biely makes the reader work toward the answers...
...Vanbrughs made fools of themselves in one way or another, but they did so in the grand manner. There was Eustace Vanbrugh (born 1834), a truly Victorian loony with an army of servants to command. (Linklater suggests that the servant class has disappeared only to re-emerge as civil servants taking revenge, in the name of socialism, on their former masters.) Eustace's lunacy revolved around the theological implications of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. He would bribe maidservants with a guinea in order to investigate whether or not they had tails: discovery of a vestigial caudal...