Word: au
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heinrich Boll would certainly have trusted none of them with the narration of Group Portrait With Lady, his book about Leni. The man he does empower, as persona, to find the facts about Leni is a late-middle-aged man who identifies himself as the Author, or the Au., and who, with an attachment to Leni and an obsession for detail, tirelessly pursues the truth...
...AU this was only a dry run to prepare students and parents for the opening day of school this week, when 22,600 pupils-half of them black, the other half white-will be bused between Louisville and the suburbs. In last week's rehearsal, about 5,000 black parents and students rode buses or drove to their new schools in the suburbs on the first day of the rehearsal; 10,000 whites made the reverse trek to inner-city classrooms on the second...
...acres of good bottom land are owned by American sugar growers or by the Duvalier family and their friends. The rest of the island consists largely of steep hillsides that have been denuded of trees-the wood is converted to charcoal and sold in the capital of Port-au-Prince for five times the 300 a bag the peasants receive for it. When it does rain, the soil on the hills is washed away. There is, moreover, virtually no catchment system to conserve the water and free the peasants from the whims of the weather. "Irrigation" generally means hauling water...
Elusive Reality. There has been much talk in Port-au-Prince about the need for agricultural development, especially in reforestation and irrigation. Unfortunately, development plans usually get bogged down in the dusty corridors of one of the world's most uncaring and corrupt bureaucracies. The Duvalier family alone skims at least $6 million a year from the government's revenues-about one-fifth of the country's entire budget-while Jean-Claude recently inaugurated a huge $3 million mausoleum honoring Papa Doc. "We live only in fantasies; reality eludes us," Publisher Dieudonne Fardin recently complained in Haiti...
Kundera actively hates poetry as much as he hates the crimes perpetrated under the banner of poetic political slogans. But he is certainly wrong when he equates the surrealistic slogans of the May 1968 revolt in Paris ("L'imagination au pouvoir." "La poesie est dans la rue!" "Soyez realistes demandez l'impossible!") with the Stalinist slogans Jaromil is editing for the May Day parade in Prague some twenty years before. Nothings was more foreign to the spontaneity and libertarian spirit of the May 1968 revolt than the oppressive regimentation of the Stalinist era in Czechoslovakia; the Parisian May had probably...