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...grimy, green-clad French Foreign Legion marched down Route Coloniale No. 2 beside their guns and tanks with curses on their lips. It was the luck of war: they had made a lightning strike into the heart of enemy country, but just as they had been about to descend on the Communist stronghold of Yenbay, the whole operation had been called off. Operation Lorraine it had been named-parachute troops leapfrogging an armored spearhead of 15,000 infantrymen, as pretty a piece of planning as you would find in the book. What had happened...
When she has answered her letters, Wanda Landowska is ready to descend. She loops her long, still-black hair, only sparsely greyshot, around her head, dons her blazing red corduroy robe ("red is for violence, like Bach, sometimes"), her flat, gold-mesh slippers and goes down to the kitchen for a breakfast of figs, dates and lettuce...
...strong feeling for the fragile emotions of adolescence. Its true hero is the Santa Croce quarter, which Novelist Pratolini describes with the affectionate accuracy of a man remembering his childhood haunts. Symbol of common miseries and memories, Santa Croce binds the characters together until the troubles of growing up descend upon them, and meanwhile, declares Valerio wistfully, "we were glad to be friends...
...Scrymgeours are an ancient Scots family whose 12th century ancestor, Sir Alexander Carron, was surnamed the "Skyrmisheour" because of his valor in battle. In 1641 Charles I made John Scrymgeour Viscount Dudhope, a title that was to descend to "his heirs male lawfully begotten . . . whom failing his heirs male whatsoever." But when the third Viscount Dudhope (pronounced Duddop) died leaving no immediate heirs, the Dudhope lands were ruthlessly grabbed by the Earl of Lauderdale, crony of the profligate Charles II and High Sheriff of Edinburgh. The earl, a man of violent temper, bullied a court of sessions into upholding...
...that will last after his own broken body and strong will give out. To the men who know and work for him, he is neither the dangerous rabble-rouser nor neo-nationalist he seems, but a savior of Germany. They excuse his violent speeches. Often, they say, he will descend from a rostrum shaking his head and murmuring, "Well, I believe that I was again somewhat too sharp." His byword, they insist, is not nein, but ja, aber so nicht-which means "yes, but not this way." Schumacher himself professes to be hurt that the West misunderstands...