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...WOMAN NAMED SOLITUDE by ANDRE SCHWARZ-BART 178 pages. Atheneum...
...writers like Andre Schwarz-Bart, it must sometimes seem that history is a dream with no awakening. There is a heightened talking in one's sleep, however, that is called prose fiction. In 1959 Schwarz-Bart, the French-born son of a Polish Jewish family annihilated by the Nazis, published The Last of the Just. It was a novel that rose directly out of 700 years of history and anti-Semitism onto the bestseller lists. Schwarz-Bart shaped his book around the ancient Hebrew legend of the 36 just men, whose job it was to suffer mankind...
...novel, Schwarz-Bart asks the 36 men to move over and make room for a woman. Her name is Solitude, a green-eyed mulatto who was conceived at sea during the pariade, the official rape fest common aboard 18th century slave ships when sailors were let loose in the cargo hold...
...thrashing, citing not only Hawk but each of the two prosecutors for contempt. The judge also pronounced himself "outraged" by the withholding of 1,650 pages of documents, including toxicology and coroner's reports, that the defense was entitled to see. In one closed session, Special Prosecutor Bart Williams, 39, a private attorney hired to supervise the county's case, finally admitted that he had "reasonable doubt" about Corona's guilt...
...BART corral more? Dahms is optimistic, and many another U.S. city is waiting anxiously for the results, since most urban planners agree that new highways exacerbate rather than solve traffic-congestion problems. For the future shape of U.S. cities, a lot depends on BART...