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...last week, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher observed that "if actions like this were allowed to stand, there would be many territories the world over where people would fear the invader." Indeed, the globe is littered with hundreds of conflicting territorial claims. Many of these controversies, such as the Austrian claim to the Italian-held South Tyrol, lie happily dormant. Others are the source of sharp protests, active negotiations and open conflict. The outcome in the Falklands will thus be closely watched by those tempted to settle such questions by force...
...away the most gifted painter of his generation in prewar Munich. Even his student drawings of the nude have a wiry and controlled strength in their ink-brushed line. Others might, and did, imitate Monet, or Beardsley, or Seurat, or the bright, flat patterns of "primitive" Austrian folk art; only Kandinsky could bring such diverse strands successfully together in the mysterious speckling and blooming of color over flat decorative shapes that lit up a painting like Riding Couple...
...conservatively estimated now at $30 million, she was early on dubbed "Sunny" for her sweet disposition. She did all the things that rich girls were supposed to do: attending finishing school, making a glittering debut and junketing to Europe. It was on one such trip, to Schloss Mittersill, an Austrian resort famed for introducing wealthy socialites to impoverished European nobility, that she met the proverbial prince. He was the resort's tennis pro, Alfie von Auersperg, an Austrian with a fabulous backhand, a fancy title and a sorry bank account. They were married and had two children, Princess Annie...
Meanwhile, University officials announce that only 90 students, most of them freshmen, have enrolled in Core courses for the spring semester. Moral Reasoning 78, "The String Quartet in 17th Century Austrian Suburbs," with an enrollment of six, is the most popular. "We seem to be encountering some resistance," W.C. Burriss Young '55, associate dean of freshmen says, adding that early plans call for Fine Arts 175, "American Architecture Gut," with a projected enrollment of over 3000, to be added to the Core next year to improve statistics...
This first section of The Age of Wonders is a stunning novella, an elegiac distillation of incomprehension and loss. But Appelfeld then brings Bruno back, some 25 years later, to the same Austrian town. There has been a revival of interest in his father's writings, and the son is invited from Israel to assist in the arrangements for the new edition. This shorter episode raises questions that are not answered, including the fate of Bruno's parents and the means by which he escaped his own destiny on the cattle train. Also, the understandable passivity that Bruno...