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The leader of men must be wise and strong; when he is not, he must seem so, putting on what John Keegan called the mask of command.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)
The leader of men must be wise and strong; when he is not, he must seem so, putting on what John Keegan called the mask of command. Yet at times of high tension great leaders show their emotions: Aeneas, realizing that the Carthaginians among whom he had been shipwrecked knew the "tears at the heart of things"; Nelson, dying at the moment of victory at Trafalgar, saying "Kiss me, Hardy" to his flag captain; Churchill, weeping tears of ...
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