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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inner life, and quoting liberally therefrom, he is not obtrusive. His analytical passages seem to have been inserted into the narrative with maximum concern for short. American attention spans; they are humble and mostly insightful, free of excessive jargon-mongering, aware of the crushing bulk of Kafka criticism and content to suggest the clearest connections to the immediate moment of his life. If there are any complaints, they are that he is sometimes a bit oversolicitous and that he reminds us too often of Kafka's literary identification with animals. Although that is a recurrent and important trait...
...Walesa should have recognized them long ago." Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau stated that martial law "isn't bad" if it prevents civil war. George Kennan, a former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, suggested that Poland's latest tragedy might have been avoided if only Solidarity had been content "to rest for a while on its laurels" instead of pushing the "semiparalyzed Communist government" to the wall...
...information uncovered by the raids led to a dramatic change of attitude within the Guatemalan army. Once content to rely mainly on passive defensive tactics, the military is now launching sweeps through the countryside under the command of a colorful, French-trained army chief of staff, Brigadier General Benedicto Lucas Garcia, who is also the brother of the Guatemalan President. A flamboyant commander who likes to hop aboard a blue-and-white helicopter to visit the front lines, "Benny," as he is called, has brought to the antiguerrilla fight some modern tactics: the use of large numbers of mobile troops...
Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore are now mimicking Japan's export-led growth. No longer content to be just peddlers of cheap clothing or cookware these new Japans are moving into heavy industry and consumer electronics Singapore is second to the U.S. in building oil-drilling rigs. South Korea has become a major force in world steel production and shipbuilding and is now sending television sets to the U.S. and automobiles to Great Britain. Taiwan is the fourth largest supplier of machine tools to the U.S. and is moving into minicomputers...
...volumes of lectures reveal a method and manner of teaching almost as fascinating as the content. It is amusing to see a famous novelist insisting upon numbered seats, cracking jokes about life in Ithaca or working out grading formulas. Nabokov's usual procedure is to introduce each novelist with a few choice and highly opinionated general comments, and then turn to the text and tackle it almost word by word. Not afraid to rank his favorites, 1-2-3, he is equally unafraid to slander his least favorites...