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Last Wednesday I tried calling Father Ignacio Martin Baro, as I usually did when I was in El Salvador. Talking with him was always a welcome respite from the government and rebel spin doctors with their self-serving versions of events. "He's at home," said a voice on the other end of the line. "You'll have to see him tomorrow...
Died. William H. Olson, 25, Cornell graduate ('65) and Peace Corpsman since last June who taught science in the Ethiopian village of Adi Ugri; after being attacked by a crocodile while standing waist-deep in the muddy Baro River near Gambela, Ethiopia. Five fellow corpsmen heard Olson shout and saw the beast pull him under; next day police found and shot the crocodile...
...early game at Princeton, Tiger righthander Graham Marcott went all the way, shutting the Crimson out on a baro four hits. Princeton buffetted three Harvard pitchers for eleven hits, with Marcott contributing two himself along with...
...Baro Finkelstone, the hero of Leslie Fiedler's latest novel, is a travesty of all the middle-aged Jewish liberals who ever lived in fiction. Pain is his pleasure. Having flagellated himself for Hiroshima, the plight of the Negro and the predicament of the American, he innocently demands: "Just tell me one thing I've done wrong." But in order to know that he is innocent, Finkelstone must suffer as though he were guilty, and Author Fiedler, who as a critic is the U.S.'s leading Freudian, cunningly assists his hero to find familiar occasions of guilt...
Split Personalities. Lolita's atmosphere of mental illness seems pervasive, and at least three publications developed schizoid tendencies from reading the book. The New York Herald Tribune sprouted two critical heads with contradictory views: in the Sunday book magazine, Gene Baro praised "a notable consistency and artistic force," but in a daily review John K. Hutchens decided that Lolita "is not, I think, a distinguished work." In the New York Times Sunday book section Novelist Elizabeth Janeway praised Lolita at length ("One of the funniest and one of the saddest books that will be published this year...