Word: dieses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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If Fast today sounds philosophical almost to the point of complacency, the story of his own life and the stories of many of his books' heroes have been tales of fighters. Lavette's response to any problem is to charge headlong into it. In Fast's fictionalized biography Citizen Tom...
Fast's mellowing is even reflected in his historical fiction. His last novel before The Immigrants was The Hessian, which he cites as his best. It is not a story of heroes and fighters at all, but the tale of how a Hessian mercenary in the Revolutionary War, a mere...
The Man Who Loved Women is Bertrand (Charles Denner), a provincial French lab technician who guiltlessly pursues a life of one-night stands. Like so many of François Truffaut's melancholy comedies, this film deals with the impossibility of monogamous love: Bertrand sleeps with dozens of women...
While tragedy moves from sanity toward self-destruction, comedy moves from self-delusion toward preservative sanity. In his pride, the tragic hero overreaches human limits and dies. In his folly, the comic hero pounds his head against those limits, is brought to his senses and lives. It is difficult to...
SOUTH KOREANS, few will disagree, live in a perpetual fear of the North and are some of the strongest anti-communists to be found in the world today, President Park has exploited this fear to an unecessary extreme in his repression of human rights, claiming that the country must be...