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Such literary journeying reached epidemic proportions during the '20s and '30s. It would be easier to list English authors who did not write travel books during the period than to name all those who did. These included D.H. Lawrence, Norman Douglas, E.M. Forster, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood and Evelyn Waugh, among scores of others. The English had always been energetic travelers; the Empire had seen to that. But Fussell thinks that the modern exodus that began in 1918 was different and that the chief difference was World...
...into it, conveying a character's awed, frozen awareness of disaster by prolonging and intensifying an action trhough slow-motion shots, slash-cutting, emphasis of details as in a dream. In this he approximates--the analogy only sounds far-fetched--the experiments of the best Soviet filmmakers of the '20s: breaking action and events into flurries of separate shots to deliver something of the full immediacy and impact of felt experience. Among contemporary directors, only Nicolas Roeg (Don't Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth) has as sure and dramatic sense of how effective this fragmentation technique works...
...place within the Atlantic Alliance in the face of the Soviet Union's alarming military buildup in Eastern Europe. Backing up its overwhelming superiority in conventional forces, the Warsaw Pact has also attained a 7-to-l edge over NATO in intermediate-range missiles; new Soviet-made SS-20s are being deployed at the dizzying rate of one every five days. Last December NATO agreed to install 572 U.S.-made Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe to offset the Soviet advantage. But the strategic parity between the superpowers-especially amid the tensions following the Soviet invasion...
...novel. The two central characters, seemingly so genteel, are an unlikely pair to wash up on the wilder shores of love. Grace and Caro Bell are sisters, beautiful and well-bred, with neither property nor prospects. Orphaned young in their native Australia, they emigrate to England in their early 20s, accompanied by their half-sister Dora, who is both incubus and guardian. To the touch, the girls' surface is all coolness; the heat seems to have been drawn out of them during their struggle against Dora's ravenous self-love...
...down the line and found a Lebanese. Israelis have no trouble finding jobs. They usually speak at least some English and often come with money to invest, accumulated from the sale of their homes, cars and other possessions back in Israel. The most recent arrivals are men in their 20s or early 30s, many of them professionals or skilled workers. Besides driving taxis, they are engaged in a host of businesses, most visibly clothing boutiques. Many are Israeli trained doctors, scientists, engineers and teachers. The Israelis have their own weekly newspaper, Our Israel, published in New York (circ...