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...Communist Party. His novels have faithfully reflected the current state of his search. Independent People, for instance, which won him the 1955 Nobel Prize, deals with Icelandic freeholders battling capitalist landowners. In his latest novel, Laxness, now 60, takes a tranquil, detached look at man's age-old quest for paradise and in delicately laced, gently ironic prose shows how elusive paradise...
...real shocker. Many unwary readers will be firmly convinced that most of the U.S.-with its animals, plants, soil, water and people-is already laced with poison that will soon start taking a dreadful toll, and that the only hope is to stop using chemical pesticides and let the age-old "balance of nature" take care of obnoxious insects...
...Lies. Twain takes a humorist's advantage of the Bible: he makes the worst possible case for it by interpreting it as literally as possible. The crux of his complaint is his inability to reconcile a good God with all the suffering he saw in the world-an age-old problem that has bothered greater minds and produced greater musings. In the guise of Satan, Twain writes his letters to the Archangels Michael and Gabriel explaining the bizarre beliefs of mortals on a variety of topics: ON GOD: "It is most difficult to understand the disposition of the Bible...
...damage seemed even worse than at first expected. Wailed the village mullah of Danesfahan, where 3,200 of 4,500 inhabitants perished: "We have brought this evil on ourselves. It is God's vengeance for our sins." But the real evil, experts decided, lies in the peasants' age-old technique of building thick-walled, mud-brick houses that instantly collapse on their occupants in an earthquake. After his inspection, the Shah announced plans to rebuild the nation's 50.000 mud-hut villages.* It will take at least 15 years-if new earthquakes do not hasten the task...
...Above - The Mud Below returns, in grittily absorbing documentary fashion, to the Stone Age. Filmed in the cruel, uncharted jungle of interior New Guinea, it is a salute to man's unquenchable zest for adventure and a pictorial diary of age-old sociological curios, from headhunting to mock-birth rituals...