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Nicaragua uses brutal force on its proud, once friendly Indians...
...that Die Soldaten lacks arresting moments. The brutal prelude mixes the Dies irae with an orchestral primal scream, propelled by a relentless pounding of timpani that recalls the opening of the Brahms First Symphony. Along the way, several of the ensembles are strikingly crafted, such as a dramatically dilatory but musically effective trio for Marie (Phyllis Hunter), her sister Charlotte (Beverly Morgan) and a haughty but generous countess (RoseMarie Freni). And the final scene, in which civilization explodes in a brilliant burst of light and a final crash of the drums, is chilling...
...Henry R. Luce, co-founder of Time Inc. She had been a Congresswoman and was on her way to becoming an Ambassador. It was small wonder that when 18-year-old Wilfrid Sheed met her he was awestruck. Her intimidating husband, the novelist-critic recalls, "summed me up with brutal accuracy as someone he didn't have much to learn from, certainly not enough to crank up his famous stammer for." But Clare Boothe Luce was something else. At 46, she remained "drenchingly beautiful" and "slightly coquettish." Wilfrid was the son of Roman Catholic publishers, and Clare had become...
...spent education. But whether a garden-variety schlemiel like Tommy Wilhelm of Seize the Day, a disheveled and dislocated intellectual like Mosses Herzog of Herzog, or a questionably successful writer like Charlie Citrine of Humboldt's Gift. Homo Bellow has the task of getting himself horsewhipped by a comically brutal world. Then, of course, the Bellow protagonist will accept the world as his own awful mother. No fan-fare, no fireworks, just a tidy little epiphany...
...among other things, the Salvadoran government was making a concerted effort to protect the human rights of the Salvadoran people. Robert White, former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador under the Carter administration, put it best when he recently characterized the certification as the "[Reagan] Administration's whitewash of the brutal and corrupt Salvadoran military machine...