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...some French writers the production of novels is like the eating of salted almonds-they just cannot stop. Balzac turned out 17 volumes in compiling his Comédie Humaine, which pinned down 19th century life. Jules Remains, in his Hommes de Bonne Volonte, needed 27 books just to span the years from the eve of World War I to the eve of World War II. Author Troyat, 46, is trying hard to fit his stride to those giant footsteps: this book is the second of a series of related novels that is to be called The Seed...
...Damascus, thousands of Palestine Arab refugees snaked through the streets chanting: "Let Hussein die like the dog his grandfather!" (King Abdullah, who was assassinated by a Palestinian Arab in 1951). Radio Moscow gleefully joined Nasser's chorus, described Hussein as "a friend of the bitterest enemies of the Arab world-the U.S., Britain and Turkey." The Cairo attacks were so patently absurd that Amman newspapers began publishing excerpts: "Jordanian Army Refuses Open Fire on Refugees" and "Demonstrations Being Staged Everywhere in Jordan." There were no demonstrations, as every refugee could plainly...
Richard Strauss, a giant in his own right, stood between the influences of two other musical greats. He acknowledged one when, as he began work on Der Rosenkavalier in 1909, he said: "This time I shall write a Mozart opera." He repeatedly acknowledged Richard Wagner before starting Die Frau Ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), a huge opera that sounds thunderous echoes of the Ring cycle as well as of Strauss's own tone poems. Now recorded for the first time in an ambitious five-disk set by London, Die Frau Ohne Schatten is one of the most...
...said Notre Dame's Dick Lynch, "it was a do-or-die game, and we did it." Explained his teammate Nick Pietrosante: "We did it for all the Catholics in Oklahoma (total: about 91,000 in a population...
When Casement finally landed in Kerry on his ill-fated expedition, he seems to have been near despair, guessing that the scheduled Easter Rising was foredoomed to failure. He actually hoped to prevent it, but it was too late. Foiled and captured, he had only one role left: to die. He did that in style. During his trial. Casement's main preoccupation was the speech he would make from the dock. It came out very well, almost as well as that of Robert Emmet to whom the Irish in America had often compared...