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Like the earlier work, Ararat is a combination of prose and poetry, original material and translation, exploring the connections between consciousness and holocaust, sex and death. But whereas The White Hotel connected these themes with a pulse all its own, Ararat, like the Armenian landscape from which it is drawn, is a much drier work. The tremendous stream of poetry in The White Hotel, the sexually surreal "Don Giovanni" portion as well as the deafening violence of the Babi Yar testimony, collaborated to overwhelm the reader. This sensory overload created a flow or wave of feeling, which after...
...story begins with the tale of three writers, a Russian an Armenian and an American woman, who are snack in an Armenian hotel and agree to improvise a story on a common subject. One writer tells the story of Sarkov, a Russian poet on his way to American by sea. On board ship feeling quite ill, Surkov often becomes delirious and imagines himself to be Pushkin. Also in a rather hallucinatory way he runs into the ubiquitous Finn, Satanic old man who has taken part in all of the world's great massacres. In this milieu, Surkov sits down...
Grendel's Den was originally denied a liquor license in 1977 because of a veto by the Holy Cross Armenian Catholic Church. A state law allowing a church to prevent restaurants from serving alcohol within 500 feet of its door enabled the church to exercise its veto. But ruling on an appeal of the Grendel's case, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the state, law unconstitutional...
Deukmejian, the son of an Armenian rug merchant, took office proclaiming that "there are no limits to what we can achieve" and promising to seek "a new era of opportunity with responsible progress and growth which expands outward for all who seek work." His two-day inauguration included a two-hour show starring Dean Martin and Peggy Lee, a half-hour ceremonial oath-taking (attended by Brown and former Senator S.I. Hayakawa), a reception for influential campaign contributors and a black-tie ball. The $500,000 celebration was produced by Walt Disney Productions and MGM/United Artists...
...case began when the Holy Cross Armenian Catholic Church in Harvard Square decided not to let Grendel's, a local restaurant within 500 feet of the church, obtain a liquor license. The church did not explain why it was only challenging Grendel's, when 26 other restaurants within the legal radius also served alcohol. It also did not explain why Cambridge's non-Armenian Catholics should wield such power over Cambridge's non-Armenian Catholics...