Word: 1880s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pont-Aven, the setting for much of this loosely structured, deliberately vulgar French comedy, is the seacoast town where Paul Gauguin settled temporarily after abandoning his job and family in the 1880s. The hero of The Cookies is a present-day painter who also throws over a boring wife and job and moves to Pont-Aven. One major difference between the two men, however, is that Gauguin became in his rebellion a leading light of the French avantgarde. The hero of Cookies, both as a man and a painter, is largely obsessed with female buttocks. He is an artist...
...killing of hundreds if not thousands of Ugandan Christians, who number about 7 million in a country of 11.6 million. His action was painfully reminiscent of the stories of the "Uganda martyrs," a group of about 200 Christian converts who were persecuted and put to death in the 1880s by King Mwanga, ruler of Buganda, the largest of Uganda's four ancient tribal kingdoms. In 1964, 22 of the martyrs were canonized by the Roman Catholic Church...
...France, the guillotine dispatches condemned criminals. In Britain, it is a device designed to cut off endless parliamentary debate-much as cloture is used in the U.S. Congress. Begun in the 1880s to combat the obstructionist tactics of Irish Nationalist Charles Parnell and his colleagues, the guillotine has been a welcome procedure for circumventing parliamentary bottlenecks. But when employed prematurely to close off debate on major, hotly contested legislation, it can stir up the wrath of M.P.s on both sides of the floor. Last week Prime Minister James Callaghan's Labor government ran into just that kind of resistance...
Evidence of Love finds her on un familiar ground. The novel's settings include Philadelphia in the 1880s, Europe before and after World War I, British East Africa, contemporary small-town Pennsylvania, Chicago and a modern retirement community on Florida's Gulf Coast. But the three main characters seem to have less interest in place than in themselves...
Czarist Pogroms. HIAS, whose tradition of helping refugees from Russia reaches back to the czarist pogroms of the 1880s, has thus far resisted Israeli pressure. Last week the Israeli government dispatched two top officials, Yehuda Avner and Nehemia Levanon, to a meeting of Jewish organizations in Philadelphia to press its case. Still, no decision was taken on the issue of cutting off aid to dropouts...