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...writing, because Beckett himself is so clearly trying to sum things up in every piece of work he produces, the project of summing up his career, especially as his voice now seems to be murmering ever closer to a final silence, is attractive. This is the impulse behind A. Alvarez's contribution on Beckett to the "Modern Masters Series," a publishing phenomenon that is in itself a mark of the paradox that has made such a lonely, distant writer as Beckett so well known...
...that contains an elaborate chart of the "genealogy" of Beckett's work. The aim is to show how unified the whole oeuvre is in a movement towards its own final extinction. Molloy is a descendent of Watt, and a cousin to Mercier et Camier; Godot is grandfather to Lessness. Alvarez's book is written at a time and from a critical viewpoint that successfully demonstrate this Beckettian family of worlds in generation, and gives a sense of its underlying rhythms. For Beckett, the search for less--and finally for nothing--is the search for an art without content except itself...
...truckers could be Chile's Archie Bunkers, characterized by having a low level of tolerance for people who try to tell them what to do with their money. Some of them, however, are civil engineers forced into trucking because of the lack of jobs. Others, like Manuel Alvarez, have been journalists abroad who returned because they were homesick. "This is a battle for the future," says Alvarez, the owner of an old truck so lacking in engine parts that it had to be towed onto the field. "I am fighting so my children won't have...
...understand the fuss." I.O.S.'s Fund of Funds allegedly plowed about $60 million into Interamerican Capital, a Costa Rican investment firm that could well serve as a vehicle in securing for Vesco a firm financial foothold in the country. For a time, Alberto Inocente Alvarez, a Figueres confidant, headed the company...
...prisoners themselves convincingly refuted such speculation. Said Navy Captain Howard E. Rutledge: " am surprised anyone could conceive that we could come out of there and say anything but 'God bless America.' Added Lieut. Commander Everett Alvarez Jr.: "For years and years we've dreamed of this day, and we kept the faith-faith in God, in our President and in our country...