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...Spain's 2.7 million Basques (out of a total population of 37 million) have always posed a problem for the country's rulers. The Basque language (spoken only by about 20% of the region's people) is unique. The Basques have always resented government from afar, a tradition that goes as far back as the 8th century, when they did not submit to the Moorish invasion that conquered most of Spain...
...telling of tales through the verbatim transcripts of the participants themselves, in many ways seems a natural vehicle for exploring Vietnam. Oral history can provide a confused, halting narrative for a confused, halting war, through the words of the people who had to implement the insanities ordered from afar. The best thing about Everything We Had, one of two, new oral histories of Vietnam (the other is called Nam), is its cadence, the mesmerizing pace of the explanations of those who had to do unreasonable things and then try to survive them. This befuddlement that cost 57,000 Americans their...
Time: Nov. 30, 1974. Scene: the bleached and arid Afar Triangle of Ethiopia. Nothing about the desert seemed auspicious. Yet Anthropologist Donald Johanson had a premonition that this would be no ordinary morning. Shortly afterward, his hunch was ratified. The day was not merely unusual; it was epochal...
...where are the problems? Colwin finds two and plays several variations on them. First, a young woman falls in love with a presentable man who would rather pine after her from afar than marry her. Complains the heroine of the title story: "Jacob wanted a grand event-something you would never forget but not something to live with. I wanted something to live with." In The Smile Beneath the Smile, a woman frets over the behavior of her hot-and-cold-running lover: "Andrew, if she agreed to see him again, would conduct their meetings like a series...
...answer was simple. "I feel I'm there just by writing and by impression. I can see Mexico better from afar, from Baker Library in Dartmouth College, while if I were in Mexico having to wrestle with all the terrible problems of everyday life, it'd be too difficult to write. And I must write...