As for the cause of women, as opinion polls and common sense had suggested and the election results confirmed, most women were less concerned with such so-called women's issues as ERA and abortion, which Ferraro's candidacy symbolized, than with the fact that the nation was at peace and the economy was humming, circumstances for which they credited President Reagan. Blacks? They labored loyally in Britain's colonies, played wonderful cricket, worked the factories of Bolton and Liverpool And then there was this Joe Louis fellow from America. Duerr speculates that the legal system's choice to ignore the chemical connection was made because of the Catholic Church: "If the sexual intercourse of the witch with the Devil or her dance at the witch's sabbath turned out to be nothing but an illusion, then the next logical step would be the conclusion that the Devil himself was nothing but a phantom also" In "momboto" (as the Tolai tribe of New Brittany call dreamtime, "nhh" (ancient Egyptian) and "aradaga" (Germanic, everything turns upside down: "Humans behave 'like wild animals' and men sleep with their sisters" Pursuing inversions and reversals that occur at the borderlands of experience, Duerr spins off many tangents: fear of flying and the evaporation of ego boundaries; the transformation of the White Goddess or the huntress Diana into the Virgin Mary; werewolves (especially Chapter 6: "Wolves, death, and the island of ethnographers; the Huichole practice of traveling back along their previous path compared to the Tantric Holy Men who walk against the current by "causing all life process, from breathing to the flow of semen to go 'backwards' ; the eroticization of the late Middle Ages. They envisioned an earthly paradise, but their hope was more sexual than religious because they did not think that fate or a higher deity would be the agent of change; they saw themselves as the procreators. Still, there is a lot of Gypsy Boots in this passionate little volume: "Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you" Dr Pauling exhorts us. Germany Today, a Personal Report, Walter Laqueur (Little, Brown. Ronald Blythe may not quite bestride the world of English letters, but he will be found there generations after several bigger reputations have washed away He does supremely well something that is supremely his own.
"It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs" The story opens with a squad of guerrillas digging up this eccentric foreigner, whose corpse will be strapped to a desert sled and hauled north to his own country. Though the manuscript remains top-secret, Crown thought enough of Davis' first literary effort to offer the actress, one-time pop singer, anti-nuclear activist and well-known exercise addict an advance of six figures. "Their Maginot Line in the sky cannot provide Mutual Assured Survival. Arguably the most novel chapter, "Humanist Rights" construes Bertrand Russell, Sigmund Freud and John Dewey not simply as critics of religion but as spiritual guides who shared much with the best expressions of the religious imagination East and West. Life, which had been the most prosperous weekly in history, died of television and postal rates, although it was to be reborn as a monthly.
When poor Blume Macht's mother dies, she is sent to live as a housemaid with her well-off Galician relatives, the Hurvitzes. In addition to communicating visual excitement and grandeur, Lenihan writes, Westerns are "heroic myths eulogizing America's greatness" and presenting alternatives to political bureaucracy just as Edgar Rice Burroughs and Zane Grey offered adventurous escape from the alienation expressed by writers from the Lost Generation. Omni's Catalog of the Bizarre, Pamela Weintraub (Doubleday/Dolphin: $9. 95. Sometimes it seems that the ongoing flow of comment about the man, so intriguing as a person, is on the verge of totally eclipsing his work. Enrico Fermi makes the grade for building the first atomic reactor.
He was Andries Pretorius, the hero of Blood River, where a laager full of Afrikaners saw off 10,000 Zulus. Paula Fitzsimmons, Nada's daughter, is a girl who never knew her father "I think he died before I was born; reads palms at her mother's parties, locks herself in small, dark, closets; faints at fashion shows, and hides behind the Shakespearean characters she plays on the stage at school. But, for all her personal problems, she proves to be a flip and funny narrator. But there is a less familiar and darker side to the story, one marked by instances of brutality, insensitivity and failed idealism. The boy's questions about Mexican-Americans confounded him back then and serve as the inspiration for his adult investigations today. But what a joy for anyone who is or can remember being a child, thinking without periods or proper sentence structure, making connections between words and ideas that are more apt to lead to nonsense than sense, and weaving into story every event of life.
The name, what is attached to it by previous work, by serious thought, tells me whether it is likely to have any meaning or value for me. More notes and commentary, corrections and cross-references, index and glossary, "poems early abandoned" and "unwritten cantos" And, oh yes, the main poems are nice, too. A year after he wrote them, already grievously ill with tuberculosis, he met Dora Dymant, the cook in a Jewish asylum. but not Marie Curie, who invented what we now call the 'Geiger' counter and discovered radioactivity. Rather than change, they rig training exercises to show that they are on the right course. For his part, Zwerneman applauds the elimination of the remnants of the revolutionary government in Grenada in October, 1983, via U. S intervention.
He's a "culture vulture" meaning he collects fragments of Orange County's past: orange crate labels, written histories, even bits of wood from "historic" structures such as the now-buried El Modena Elementary School He fancies himself a poet, but he doesn't write much. It is hard to find in it the kind of story or narrative, as of a pilgrimage or quest, that many cultures have used to link private and public; present, past, and future; and the life of the individual to the life of the society, and the meaning of the cosmos. . Herman Tarnower, is under investigation by the New York State Crime Victims Board. There's got to be a saboteur aboard, willing to die for such a blow to Allied morale. As a political figure, Mandela is almost invisible: He has not been seen or heard by most South Africans, whether they be his supporters or his opponents, and many of those militant young blacks in the front lines of the the anti-apartheid campaign today were born after he was jailed. To suggest, for example, that a single tribal government can exert exclusive control over all the fish and game passing through its area without regard to its neighbors' wishes, or state and federal government conservation officials, is to suggest that legislators and bureaucrats abdicate their responsibilities to sound wildlife-management principles. Power and Principle, Zbigniew Brzezinski (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; The Supply-Side Revolution: An Insider's Account of Policymaking in Washington, Paul Craig Roberts (Harvard.
Only her mother's dearest friend, a woman who has renounced the Mennonites and lives in France, can help; she writes to Dovie, and between them, they collaborate to preserve the memory of the woman they both love. Elegant, economical, evocative-these terms describe Janet Kauffman's short novel, "Collaborators" the story of a very special mother-daughter relationship. But while France's rulers, say, proclaimed various shades of gloire, the people listened and kept something under the mattress, just in case. Riches and Honor, Tom Hyman (Viking) "is absolutely not literature. The weekly letters range from concrete and minute details about Havel's prison life and his aches, pains and worries, to pages of abstract thinking about the possibilities of being human in the modern world. A relative was impaled on a stake alongside the Voortrekker hero, Piet Retief, after the infamous encounter with the Zulu king, Dingaan. Kenneth Hopkins, who wrote a sprightly history of the poets laureate 20 years ago, and from whom much of what follows is impenitently borrowed, tells us that Henry VII, for example, needed someone to write Latin verse for auspicious occasions.
At times, however, he seems to have crammed too much information and too many names into overly general headings Then the whole seems to sprawl. The title is an homage to the late-19th-Century dictionary of the subject edited by H R I. Canin makes us feel what he feels, using what is known as "deceptively simple" prose. Adark bit from W H. And there was family blood too in the man who helped the Boers get their own back.
This is an insider's story, full of insider's insights into 300 years of Afrikaner history. (flows) in response to the beauty he sees in the skies, in the results of research on these phenomena, and in the connections of these with facets of life around him" (Robert J Chambers Queer, William S Burroughs (Viking. To their mutual disgust, their absentee father wants them to spend the summer with him and his new family in Des Moines. A week of conversations at the lab convinced me that the assertions of the critics are generally correct: A move to defense would touch off an expensive new arms race that would make the world a more dangerous place in which to live" As different as bread and wine, these two very intelligent, extremely informative books go well together. But that impression will last only momentarily for readers who venture through this 1985 work, as the authors do an effective job of illustrating just how constricting those "confines" can be. The Hasidic rabbi forbade the marriage: Kafka was not an observant Jew.
Life, which had been the most prosperous weekly in history, died of television and postal rates, although it was to be reborn as a monthly. And there was family blood too in the man who helped the Boers get their own back. Samson, understandably, is viewed unfavorably by his superiors. "Cataclysm" seems in the end World Banker Clark's daydream, as if a dentist were to publish a novel about how the world is saved by someone who cleans teeth. .
Carnivals are a good example: "It was a time for the mouse to eat the cat" Morgan writes, "the sheep to eat the wolf, the rabbit to shoot the hunter. Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney's father gave her, at age 17, the management of his entire South Carolina plantation where in five years, by 1744, she established an indigo crop and processing method that became the mainstay of the region's economy. The techniques that initially enabled the Japanese to pull ahead, Jacobson and Hillkirk say, were three: superior relationships with vendors, quality control right on the assembly line (as opposed to quality checking at the end of the line, and "just-in-time manufacturing" the computerized provision of parts so that staff and equipment always are used at 100% of capacity Xerox has duplicated (or improved on) all three. Perhaps "The Life" tells more than we would really care to know about Thesiger Even the old explorer may have had second thoughts. After a number of product liability lawsuits were filed alleging faulty fuel tanks that caught fire after rear-end collisions, Ford recalled 1. 5 million Pintos and Mercury Bobcats.
At Simon & Schuster, Toni Werbell confides: "I don't know who it is, I swear to God, but I think it's somebody famous" AND THE WINNERS ARE: In Mexico City, American Michael Mathes was awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle, Mexico's highest award for foreigners, for his books on the history of Baja California and northwestern Mexico. HEMISPHERIC HIGHLIGHTS: Avon is marking the 50th anniversary of the original Brazilian publication of Jorge Amado's "The Captains of the Sands" by publishing the first English translation of this early work by the author of "Showdown" "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands" etc In St. But once Tucker moves beyond his clippings, including citations from such eminent sources as Rupert Murdoch's New York Post and Good Housekeeping magazine, he runs into serious problems Perhaps worst of all, Tucker fills his work with hyperbole. Now, in 11 short stories composing "Learning to Swim" he paints black-and-white scenes of afflicted and maladjusted individuals in illusionary settings dallying with improbable events.
Why are we not challenged? Is it that accounts of everyday life have begun to acquire a repertoire of predictable situations? Parallels abound between abandoned women in these tales-but in these vintage years for the short story, the reader wants the inescapable irony-not the formulated one. The stories of Francine Prose are for those with an appetite for the domestic disturbances of modern society and the frailness of human relationships. It gainfully employs people, produces a product or provides a service and turns a profit in the process. Regional military conflicts-changing with each new attack-and books-usually documents of record-seem an unlikely pair. Lobotomy received the ultimate accolade when, in 1949, Egas Moniz shared the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. In this authoritative and disturbing book, Elliot Valenstein, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Michigan, deals primarily with the history of prefrontal lobotomy-the psychosurgical procedure that aimed to alleviate severe symptoms of mental illness by cutting and crushing nerve fibers and other matter in the prefrontal lobes of the human brain. The South's leaders are wise and kindly in humbling the North-presumably Rambo was somehow unavailable to the United States. Finally, some BOMC facts and figures: Launched in 1926 with 4,750 members, the club now boasts more than 2 million members and has shipped 440 million books. NEW YORK — HOW DO YOU SAY IT IN YOUR LANGUAGE? Founded in 1985 by Ann Getty and Lord Weidenfeld, the Wheatland Foundation has set up a new Wheatland Translation Fund. "Saga" sounds like a pretentious word, but O'Brien's dramatic sense and vivid language make impressive reading. Meanwhile, the Likud has now lost several leaders of its liberal wing to a new party with a policy of territory for peace including the mayors of Tel Aviv, Rehovot, Timona and the chairman of the World Zionist Organization.
But Luce, whose Time, Fortune, Life and People have influenced other forms of journalism as well as the magazines' readers, fades very quickly from Volume Three, written by Curt Prendergast, a veteran Time foreign correspondent, and Geoffrey Colvin, a Fortune editor, in succession to the retired Elson. I'd do you no favor to disclose them here, except that they involve the post-war fate of Europe, and eventually perhaps the world. . But today such fears seem ironic as the American banks, some of them struggling merely to survive, have lost pride of place to the banks of Japan Of the world's 10 largest banks, seven now are Japanese Only one U. S bank, Citicorp, clings to a place (9th) among the top 10. Forthcoming titles, to be published every two months or so, include Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front; "Seven Gothic Tales" by Isak Dinesen; Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" and "The Catcher in the Rye" by J D Salinger.
It may be the immigrants who will help resolve the ingrown class-conflicts. The question on many American minds is: What is the justification for the American empire, such as it is?The United States had its Dien Bien Phu 13 years ago with the fall of Saigon, its Suez crisis 15 years ago with the first Arab oil embargo. In their book, Katsh and Meryle-Fishman include exercises that facilitate this process of relearning. One generation after another of his forebears struggled to pass the imperial examination system, the highly sophisticated and burdensome series of written tests that provided entry to official rank, only to fall victim to palace intrigue.
The bare bones are not unfamiliar-how the search for security and fulfillment of one group in South Africa has led to the domination of all the others. Finally the moment comes when nothing is left of your past, in terms of your experience, your senses-I'm not sure how to say it-your immediate, recent past, it no longer exists. Determined by natural characteristics rather than human dictates, bioregions are distinguished by particular attributes of flora, fauna, water, climate, soils, landforms and human settlements and cultures that these natural attributes have given rise to. partition plan or subsequently conquered as the invading Arab armies were thrown back. Both demand a democratic road to socialism; both argue that socialists must travel that road arm in arm with liberals; but both fail to blaze the trail.