Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speakers included Gov. Francis W. Sargent, his opponent for re-election, Democratic candidate Michael S. Dukakis, Boston College professor Yuri Glazov, a recent immigrant from the Soviet Union and Shimson Inbal, Consul-General of Israel in Boston...
...whom Stoppard brings together onstage (they never met in real life). All the ingredients of a fine intellectual comedy are there, but Stoppard fails to make them gel. The problem is the character he chooses to be his catalyst: Henry Carr. In real life, Carr, a British consul in Zurich, once sued Joyce to recover some money he'd spent on a pair of pants for an amateur production of Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest put on by the local English-speaking community and co-produced by Joyce. Stoppard's Carr is a rambling codger in a floor...
...strains of inflation-now running at about 30% a year, or about triple the U.S. rate-but is also troubled by terrorism and guerrilla warfare. In the past year, several prominent Mexican industrialists and politicians and a U.S. diplomat have been kidnaped by the terrorists. The diplomat, Terrance Leonhardy, consul general in Guadalajara, was later released after his abductors' demands were...
Here is an account of the news in Graham Greene's The Honorary Consul: "A retired general had died in Cordoba at the age of eighty; a few bombs had exploded in Bogotá, and of course the Argentine football team was continuing its violent progress through Europe." Of course. The old innocent view that the game itself could be, to its supporters and players alike, a purge of violent emotions has long been exploded. Soccer is not the poor man's Sophocles...
...novel itself is divided into four movements corresponding to the parts of Beethoven's Third Symphony, "The Eroica." (Beethoven originally dedicated "The Eroica " to Napoleon, but tore up the dedication after the First Consul of France crowned himself Emperor.) At times the Burgess Bonaparte resembles a cross between Charles de Gaulle and Douglas MacArthur. At times he is an 18th century Mafia capo trying to manage overextended holdings and control his greedy relatives. Burgess seeks to evoke the heaving spirit of the Napoleonic age by rouging (and noiring) the historical facts with catchy dialogue and fantasy. As he points...