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...Take an Anglo-Saxon with an ailing love life and plant him under the Mediterranean sun. Will the change kill or cure him? This theme has more or less dominated a spate of recent novels, notably The Exchange of Joy (set in Italy), The Capri Letters (Italy), A Slimmer Night (Italy) and The Sea and the Stone (Greece). In The Dark Glasses the atmospheric catalyst is the Greek resort island of Corfu, and the inhibited patient is a 39-year-old crew-cut Englishman named Patrick Orde whose eleven-year marriage to a Greek woman is not so much...
Author Markandaya lives and writes in London, and her book has the drawbacks of the contemporary English novel in which the writer's gentlemanly reach never exceeds the grasp of a meticulously tailored talent. However, the personal relationships of her characters have a tenderness and warmth noticeably above Anglo-Saxon room temperature. When East and West finally do spill blood in Some Inner Fury, it is not stanched with muffling allusions to history-on-the-march, but flows with the startling immediacy and open-faced surprise of an accident in the family kitchen where homely, familiar objects sometimes rise...
...think that Puerto Ricans are vassals of the United States," said Costa Rican President Jose ("Don Pepe") Figueres, on a state visit last week to San Juan. "Well, that's simply not true. The freedom that you breathe here is the same freedom that you breathe in any Anglo-Saxon country. That's what Puerto Rico has to put across to Latin Americans who look upon anything North American through jaundiced eyes, who simply cannot forget the slogans about Yankee imperialism and dollar diplomacy, and so do not understand the transformation of Puerto Rico...
Hanging is an old Anglo-Saxon custom. In the 13th century, punishment by death, in forms varying from the headsman's ax to the witch's pyre, was imposed as a deterrent for virtually every crime on the books. More than five centuries later, there were still some 200 crimes (including poaching) punishable by death in England. Children as young as seven were hanged. The first sweeping move toward clemency was not made until 1835, when these 200 mortal crimes were cut to four -high treason, murder, piracy, and setting fire to the royal dockyards and arsenals...
Most of the 2,500,000 party members and 16 million sympathizers in Western Europe, concludes Wolin, are in France and Italy. For this, Wolin offers one electoral explanation: "In the strong Scandinavian democracies, and especially under the Anglo-Saxon two-party system, disaffection swings public opinion to the main opposition party; in weak democracies, especially under the system of proportional representation, it can benefit Communist parties...