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...feeling out of tune with today's world, in which "moral ethics have no place" and music is dominated by "emotionless" composers like Pierre Boulez. But he refuses to join those readers of his first volume who saw him as a throwback to a better age. From his earliest years, he says, the world has shown him so much mistrust, hypocrisy and greed for power that he is not sure there ever was a Belle Epoque. More likely, with his talent, ebullience and "unconditional love of life," he has created his own epoch as he has gone along...
...years ago, when he first left Rhodesia as the son of a poor carpenter to join the little bands that first took up guerrilla training. Since then, traveling clandestinely, fighting under a series of aliases, he had witnessed the spreading of guerrilla warfare through the Third World from his earliest political and military in- doctrination under Soviet tutelage to later field experience in the Viet Nam of General Vo Nguyen Giap...
...earliest embroidered versions of the Nativity are the apocryphal "infancy gospels" dating from the first centuries A.D., which, for good reason, the church never included in the New Testament. The Gospel makes the flight into Egypt a series of miracles. A mule turns into a boy; idols selfdestruct. Another apocryphal story illustrated Jesus' childhood power by noting that he struck dead a boy who had run into him and knocked him down. Joseph, in despair, expresses his fears to Mary and wonders whether Jesus should...
...Film Actor Gere (Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Yanks). Even greater thanks are due David Dukes for his extraordinarily intuitive portrayal of Horst, a man rounded up by the state for having signed a petition demanding rights for "queers." To put this in proper historical perspective, some of the earliest Nazi party stalwarts were distinctly "bent." On the "Night of the Long Knives," June 30, 1934, Hitler ordered Ernst Röhm, left-wing head of the SA and a notorious homosexual fanatically loyal to the Führer, murdered...
...From its earliest beginnings, the U.S. has been a haven for refugees. But never has the country paid a higher price for this tradition than it has for allowing in the deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi for treatment of his gallstones and cancer. For nearly a month, 50 Americans have been held hostage in Tehran under threat of execution by the revolutionary regime of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who demands the Shah's return...