Word: darknesses
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Smilansky was a Haganah intelligence officer in that war, and the fictional village of Hirbet Hiza was patterned after a real community where he witnessed similar events. The novella thus deals with a dark side of history that many Israelis would prefer to forget. One of the country's best-known authors, Amos Elon (The Israelis: Founders and Sons), describes Smilansky's work as "perhaps the most conscience-stricken, deliberately guilt-ridden piece of contemporary Israeli literature." Hirbet Hiza is required reading in Israeli high schools and has been translated into Arabic. Last week, however, when Israel...
...directors that the screening was untimely, given the negotiations under way with Egypt. But the unprecedented cancellation of a TV show prompted protests of censorship from a coalition of artists, authors, lawyers, Knesset members, journalists and TV technicians. TV newsmen vented their feelings by letting Israeli screens go dark for 45 minutes on the day after Hammer's order. An evening program by Israeli singer Shalom Hanoch, as a result, was lost...
...land with his arms outstretched like Christ's. "He does that, I'll walk off the picture," Monty fumed, afraid that Brando would steal the movie. In the printed scene, Brando is simply shot in the head by Dean Martin. Later, however, during Monty's dark days, Brando came to him and tried to help him. "I've always hated you because I want to be better than you," Brando admitted, "but you're better than me-you're my touchstone, my challenge, and I want you and I to go on challenging each...
...racquetmen bounced back from their disappointing loss to Princeton almost two weeks ago, and convincingly defeated perennial dark horse UPenn 6-3 yesterday at Hemenway and set their sights on the National Amateur Championships which will begin Saturday in Boston...
...devils dance and wolves howl, make bad novels." So wrote an American critic upon reading Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights soon after it was first published in December 1847. As so often happens, the reviewer was wrong. Emily's tumultuous tale of Catherine Earnshaw and the dark foundling Heathcliff, of the passion that raged between them across the Yorkshire moors, easily endured critical barbs and long ago became an English classic. If anything, the novel's popularity has grown steadily in the past 130 years. It has been filmed several times, most memorably in 1939 with...