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...revolutionary Marxist" is the way Belgian Economist Ernest Mandel describes himself. In 1962 and again in 1968, Mandel toured the U.S., lecturing at a number of universities. But because of his openly announced political creed, Mandel had to receive special clearance by the Department of Justice to make the trip...
...Tralbaut. 350 pages. Viking. $40. The tortured impressionist painter is so well known that to present him to the public again, one critic has observed, would be like presenting Christ to Christians. Nevertheless this is a splendid job. Calling upon more than 50 years of devoted research, the Belgian art scholar Marc Edo Tralbaut has put together the most satisfying study of Van Gogh's life and works...
Novelist Mallet-Joris, however, seems imaginatively sure of the answers. She is a Belgian educated at Bryn Mawr. It is not frivolous to say that she learned the feel of the late 16th and early 17th centuries by writing these novels, and that she wrote them in order to learn. Ordinary historical research, the reading of the documents, was only a beginning; the more important part of her learning, it is clear, came as her characters took form and motion. What clay and what fire make a witch? Write a novel, watch, and find out. The method works...
...Belgian Cronkite...
...their general interests. Hendrik L. Smith. of the New York Times Washington Bureau, who will be in the Times' Moscow bureau next year, is studying Russian and Russian History, Francois Van Aal, Associate Nieman Fellow from Radio Television Belge, and known to the other Niemans as "the Belgian Walter Cronkite." is taking American Government courses...