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LETTERS TO FELICE by FRANZ KAFKA Edited by ERICH HELLER and JURGEN BORN Translated by JAMES STERN and ELISABETH DUCKWORTH 620 pages. Schocken Books...
...Virginia's case, the inchoate tangle of emotion began in the nursery. There were four older half siblings. One girl was totally deranged and eventually was institutionalized. A half brother, George Duckworth, was a handsome lout who began molesting Virginia when he was 19 and she was six. She had two full brothers, Thoby and Adrian, whose departure for the nation's best schools she bitterly resented, and one sister, Vanessa, who was easily the person closest to her throughout her life...
...Pena, L. Duckworth...
...DUCKWORTH...
...Byrd and I said, 'You're wrong on this. We can't support you.' He said, 'The people of Virginia will never accept desegregation. I'm going to resist this as long as I can.' " Says Norfolk's Democratic Mayor Fred Duckworth: "If we started to integrate, we'd have to give up our state aid, which is $2,000,000 a year, and 20% of the school's budget. But we also get $2,000,000 a year from the Federal Government to educate the children of Navy people...