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Pedants & Peasants. The grasping Fassolas and the well-bred Partibons share an hourglass relationship. The Fassolas are on top, but empty, feeding on the fetid air of Fascist posts and poses. The Partibons are on the bottom, but filled with grit and their own brand of gallantry -the gallantry of being their rather idiosyncratic selves. Giorgio's tawny-haired sister Elena, with whom he is spiritually close to incest, drives motorboats and herself at a swamping pace. Brother Giuliano plays cards from morning to night and takes cute tricks to bed. With Chekhovian unconcern, Papa Partibon paints while...
...their own traditions, the Yemenite community is descended from Jews who fled Palestine when the First Temple was destroyed in 586 B.C. For the most part oppressed economically and socially and isolated in desert ghettos, the Yemenite Jews stubbornly cherished their traditional culture. With mixed marriages banned, they bred one of the purest surviving strains of Jewish stock...
Something for Everybody. Whether Bowles, Kennedy's chief foreign policy adviser, will be able to hammer home some of the Kennedy policies remains to be seen. But the appointment will at least flash the six-foot, well-bred (Yale '24) image of Chester Bowles before the convention delegates and onto the nation's TV screens. That will be more important for Bowles than for Kennedy. Reason: out of nowhere in the wide-open race, Bowles has become the darkest dark horse for the Democratic nomination. Bowles-for-President groups have sprung up in points as far apart as California...
...days, when Africans rarely married outside their tribal groups, these contradictory customs affected few. But as the number of city-bred Africans grows, the problem has become Africa-wide. Today many families are neither completely tribal nor wholly Europeanized, but something in between, with all the tensions and disputes caused by the conflict of a traditional and an emerging culture. To keep their personal freedom and the control of their own earnings, many African girls are refusing to marry the men they live with. An estimated half of the couples living together in Uganda have had neither Christian, civil...
Were all U.S. fiction written by American regionalists. man's mind might often seem to have no mountains; all might appear one vast, pre-Freudian plane. There are deft, complex exceptions, such as Kentucky's unjustly forgotten Elizabeth Madox (The Time of Man) Roberts, Nevada-bred Walter Van Tilburg (The Ox-Bow Incident) Clark. But generally the regional writer is a landscape artist, pure and psychologically all too simple. What is best in his books is his sense of the soil, of the unspoken drama of work or conflict on the earth. In two new regional novels...