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...protest over the existence of a capitalist-imperialist regime 90 miles off our coast as he feels he has to protest over the existence of a socialist regime 90 miles off his coast." How about democracy? Castro made his disdain blunter than he had before, even though, from the earliest days in the Sierra Maestra 28 months ago, he had made it clear that revolutionary movements, coming to power in turmoil, need not-and dare not -call immediate elections. "Do we need elections?" Castro demanded of the crowd below him. Obediently the mob roared back...
...From the earliest work, Florentine Bernardo Daddi's 14th-century twin-panel altarpiece of Virgin and Child and The Last Judgment, to the latest, a 1948 still life by Matisse, there is hardly a masterwork that reflects turbulent emotions Enthusiasm there is, such as in Degas' pastel Singer with a Glove, but most portrait subjects are caught in repose: Manet's pipe-puffing Smoker, Tintoretto's velvet-clad, regal Venetian Senator, Joos van Clève's Mater Dolorosa...
Intimate Enmity. The earliest work in the volume, dating from 1923, is In the Swamp (alternate title: In the Jungle of Cities), which is deliberately obscure and mystifying. Two men, Shlink and Garga, engage in a relentless but seemingly motiveless duel of wills. In typically bizarre Brechtian fashion, Shlink is a Yokohamaborn Malay who has become a lumber merchant in 1912 Chicago. Garga is a lending library clerk who refuses to sell Shlink his personal judgment of a book. Shlink decides to buy Garga's soul instead, and a peculiar campaign of mutual self-abasement develops. At first...
...dream world: an erosion-created rift with layer after layer of fossils, bones and ancient artifacts. The find was named Olduvai Gorge, and Kattwinkel's heirs ever since have been scrambling up and down its sun-baked sides in search of clues to man's earliest awakening...
...veteran Olduvai Fossil-Hunter Louis S. B. Leakey. 57. reports that he and his family last year discovered what he calls, using a phrase familiar among anthropologists, "earliest man." Leakey's earliest man is described as more than 600,000 years old. or some 100,000 years older than the Peking man or Java man. Says Leakey, a broad, rumpled, sometime Cambridge don: "My 19-year-old son Jonathan wandered across a slope during a pause in our other work at Olduvai and picked up a small fragment of animal jaw. 'You've got a saber-toothed...