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...yearns romantically to be a golden loser as well as a golden winner. Furthermore, he has a notion that one must prove one's manhood, not on the battlefields of war (like old-style machismo novelists) but in the combat zones of love. Nor is he fantasizing sexual conquest. For, paradoxically, what woman represents to Tarnopol is "the testing ground, not for potency, but virtue." (Like "keeping his word and doing his duty," he took it for granted that "his mission in life was to be faithful...
...Night of the Living Dead, with Beethoven's Chickens and Conquest of the North Pole, Friday and Saturday...
Malraux feels the end of an era closing in. "Something started around 1450," he said. "The conquest of the world by Europe, followed by colonization. It is we who discovered the world. Nobody discovered us. This era lasted for 500 years. The year 1950 marked the end of the period. India became free in 1947; Mao came to power in 1949. In my book there is the perspective of the end of a civilization, just as we were at the end of the Roman Empire. We are actually between civilizations-the colonial one and a decolonized one-which...
...will be very different for Henry Aaron when he ties and then breaks Ruth's record. At a time when sporting events, from true combat like the World Series to make-believe contests like the Riggs-King tennis match, rivet the nation's attention, Aaron's conquest is being built into a spectacle nonpareil. The Atlanta Braves management is already in such a tizzy over preparations that when one official was informed that Jerry Ford might be available to throw out the first ball at the team's opening home game next Monday night, he responded...
...there this year; that alone will make the ceremony more bearable. But the ceremony itself does not matter; what counts is that AFI is honoring Cagney. The tribute has triggered a like response from WKBG-TV: The Cambridge station has scheduled a week of Cagney, beginning with City for Conquest on Saturday night. Watch as many of the films as you can. They showcase an actor of remarkable versatility, one whose gift for comedy and drama, song and dance, intensity and froth has remained unmatched since his retirement 13 years ago. Ch. 7, 9:30 p.m. 1 1/2 hours...