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Recognized as the father of the modern Arab novel, Mahfouz is frequently compared with such 19th century social realists as Dickens and Balzac. In nearly 40 novels and a dozen story collections, he has dealt with the social and political upheavals Egypt has experienced during his lifetime. His main contribution, says Sasson Somekh, a visiting professor of Arabic literature at Princeton, is the "creation of a new Egyptian style" that combines the narrative manner of classic texts such as The Thousand and One Nights with contemporary subject matter...
...resident tutor in Quincy House under Aloian, is asking those who knew Aloian to make contributions if he completes his ride from Cambridge to Provincetown. He said he already has a promise of $100 from President Bok, plus other pledges from many University students and nearly all of the dozen house masters...
That certainly was the impression formed in one west Toledo household, where Betty and Raymond Heitger invited about a dozen of their friends and neighbors over to watch the heartbeat-away sweepstakes. Betty, a registered nurse, and Raymond, a high school math teacher, were Bush backers. Many of their guests were the kind of blue-collar voters and nominal Democrats who may swing the election. Typical was Greg Kretz, a 30-year-old carpenter, who said before the debate, "I like the job Reagan has done, but I don't think that Bush has the same kind of leadership...
...bourgeoisie. But his eye for the instant gesture and socially revealing incident went with a lifelong habit of recycling poses and motifs, patching them in. Thus he can be very deceptive: the image that seems the freshest product of observation turns out to have been used half a dozen times before. Degas copied everything from Mantegna to Mogul miniatures, and even the work of lesser painters than himself; an artist, he said, should not be allowed to draw so much as a radish without the constant habit of copying the Old Masters...
With six national groups and more than a dozen other ethnic groups in a population of only 24 million, Yugoslavia's nationality problems have been a source of conflict for centuries, but they have been aggravated by economic woes: inflation at 217%, unemployment at 15%, a foreign debt of $21 billion. Though a party plenum this month will try to defuse regional strife and revive the economy, a Slovene television producer fretted, "No one says it out loud, but everyone worries that ((the crisis)) can even lead to civil...