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DIED. Marion K. Sanders, 72, journalist, novelist (The Bride Laughed Once) and biographer of Journalist Dorothy Thompson; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. While working for the State Department, Sanders helped develop its publications program and served as editor in chief of the Russian language magazine Amerika. She later worked as an editor at Harper's and Atlas World Press Review...
Like a lot of silly movies, Voyage of the Damned is extracted from a serious idea-in this case one with historical foundation. In 1939, as part of a propaganda effort, the Nazis bundled Jews from all levels of German life, privileged to deprived, onto a Hamburg-Amerika liner, the St. Louis. The ship was bound out of Hamburg to Havana, Cuba, where the passengers understood they could disembark if they chose. Once in Havana harbor, however, the Jews were not allowed off the ship. Their landing permits had been deliberately scrambled by the Cuban government in league with...
...society--could he be the same who wrote, in the 1969 introduction to Jerry Rubin's Do It!, "I can unite with Jerry around hatred of pig judges, around hatred of capitalism, around the total desire to smash what is now the social order of the United States of Amerika...
...PERFORMANCE collapses during an adaptation of Amerika and throughout any of the other scenes in which Julie Ince, playing the thoroughly unnecessary part of the Woman, dominates. Ince is the sort of actress who points her toes a lot; what part the sensuous mannequin has in the world of Kafka is hard...
...Amerika, Kafka's ubiquitous K. figure finds the Statue of Liberty mysteriously illumined, and ends his journey in the wondrous "nature theatre of Oklahoma." According to Biographer Klaus Mann, Kafka, like many armchair immigrants, "imagined that all Americans wore a perpetual smile...