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...COLD BLOOD, by Truman Capote. The darkest side of murder-in this case the slaughter of a farm family in Kansas-is illuminated with a fidelity that makes the act as real as it was meaningless...
...COLD BLOOD, by Truman Capote. The darkest side of murder-in this case the killing of a farm family in Kansas-is illuminated with a fidelity that makes the act as real as it was meaningless...
Having prowled among the adolescents of Samoa, the housewives of Bali and the husbands of the Mundugumor on New Guinea, Anthropologist Margaret Mead, 64, should be prepared for her next field trip. Next fall she will teach elementary anthropology at darkest Yale...
ORVILLE FREEMAN, 47, experienced his darkest hour as Secretary of Agriculture in 1963 when U.S. farmers overwhelmingly rejected his wheat program. Since then, in one of the Cabinet's toughest jobs, Freeman has steered a four-year farm bill through Congress, reduced agricultural surpluses by nearly a third, helped to make American food production a key instrument of foreign policy. He now stands at the peak of his popularity with farmers...
...details, but others are important. Shaffer has moved the murder of Atahuallpa's brother Huascar ahead in time. And he has made Pizarro eventually a more sympathetic character than emerges from Prescott, who rightly stated that "the treatment of Atahuallpa, from first to last, forms undoubtedly one of the darkest chapters in Spanish colonial history." But these changes are invariably justified dramaturgically, Shaffer has retained, compressed, omitted, and changed the right things to insure a better play...