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...Beach of Falesa, which is roughly half as long as his scholarly preface and many times as interesting. The story Stevenson intended is a bit grittier and more pungent than the one that appeared. A vagabond British trader named Wiltshire tells of being assigned to reopen a defunct post on a remote island. He is befriended at first by a man called Case, who enjoys a trading monopoly. Case persuades the newcomer to take up with Uma, a beautiful, half-naked native girl, and arranges a sham wedding ceremony. Before long, Wiltshire falls in love with his concubine and marries...
...clasics. Flag burning replaced flag waving. Worst of all "during the late sixties, cultural relativism settled in as the orthodoxy at Dartmouth. 'Value judgements" were evil. We were to be 'non-judgemental.' What they really meant to say was that the core values of the West were now defunct...
...Hoffman, a former columnist for the now defunct Chicago Daily News and for the Washington Post, writes with occasional Second City vulgarity and feistiness. But he can also display an elegiac grace about a world in which everything, everywhere, has suddenly gone wrong: "Heading along the street to where he had parked his car, he looked up and saw a dark red, liver-colored sky, full of ores and oxides and particulates. The droughts of last summer had been followed by the winds of November. Although Allan did not know it, he was seeing the State of Oklahoma blowing past...
...inability of a news organ to be sure that it has not been used was cited last week by the West German newsweekly Der Spiegel. The publication withdrew, for a no-cash settlement, a libel suit that it had brought in Britain against the defunct newsweekly Now. The London-based magazine had reprinted in 1981, a few months before it folded, a speech by its owner, Sir James Goldsmith, in which he accused the left-leaning Spiegel of having been manipulated by the KGB while researching a series of 1962 articles that challenged the integrity of Franz Josef Strauss, then...
...what was this? Direct Mail from the Great Beyond? An exhortation exhumed with Jackson's bodily remains? Unfortunately, the truth is not quite so tasteful. Two former members of Jackson's staff saw fit to lend their defunct chief's name and memory to the hard-pressed Gardner, perhaps with the hope of rectifying their unemployment caused by Jackson's untimely demise. Men of former eras might have been deterred by their awe of the dead; but with luck the Senator's spirit was still a true Democrat at heart...