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Died. Miguel Angel Asturias, 74, Guatemalan novelist, diplomat and winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for literature; of a respiratory ailment and intestinal tumor; in Madrid. A hulking man with strikingly saurian eyes, Asturias was a dedicated leftist. He spent much of his life abroad, either as a student, in diplomatic service or, when the Guatemalan government had taken one of its periodic swings to the extreme right, as an exile. His first major novel, The President, a searing indictment of a Guatemalan dictator, was followed by a trilogy blasting the imperialism of the United Fruit Co. in Latin America...
...DECAY OF THE ANGEL by YUKIO MISHIMA Translated by EDWARD G. SEIDENSTICKER 236 pages. Knopf...
...even with Lee Harvey Oswald. The assassin appears only as a menacing rifleman waiting behind a scrim, and then as a sweating prisoner led down the garage ramp to be shot himself. The focus of this elaborate and populous production is Jack Ruby, the bloody little Sunday morning angel of vengeance...
...Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat"), on E Street Springsteen works with an easy, economical sense of concreteness and colloquial ambience. He talks normal, only we should talk so good. The "E Street Shuffle" itself is a literal evocation of street-corner cacaphony, in which "Little Angel steps the shuffle like she ain't got no brains" and police and kids seem bent on heroic mutual harrassment...
...solid (circ. 100,000) as well as influential, NR faces mounting postal and publishing costs. Recently the weekly has run at a small profit, which is unusual for opinion journals. But red ink is always a threat, and Harrison, 58, figured that it was time for a younger angel with a muscular bankroll...