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...wrote. "And as long as we don't give him up, then nothing is given up." The aphorism is a frag ment of autobiography. Born in 1905 in a Danube port city in Bulgaria, Canetti claims that his Turkish-raised grandfather boasted of knowing 17 languages. After his fa ther died in Manchester, England, Canetti zigzagged between the Zu rich of Dada, Lenin and Joyce, and the Vienna of Freud, finally earning a Ph.D. in chemistry. But the young doctor chose literature instead of laboratories. Auto-da-Fé (1935), published on the eve of Hitler's Anschluss...
DIED. Theodore Roszak, 74, Polish-born sculptor who was best known for the much maligned, and admired, 37-ft. aluminum eagle he created for the façade of the U.S. embassy in London in 1960; of a heart attack; in New York City...
Behind the cornbread and strawberry-jam façade, however, is a cancer: the founder of the fortune, who cannot even control his own bodily functions, has wrapped his legacy in black shrouds of suspicion and hostility, with vicious attacks on his daughter Charlotte and her brother. Soon it becomes clear that the old man is neither dying nor senile-just mean...
Half a century ago, the Republic of Argentina was one of the most promising countries in the West. In the past two generations, behind a façade of "European" style, the country has degenerated into narcissism. Where some countries have aspirations, the Argentines have dreams. These they inflict upon each other in spasms of nationalism, socialism, Peronism, fascism and pure terrorism. As Jacobo Timerman points out in this harrowing account, violence amounts to a national characteristic in Argentina today...
...Indian Guides and distinguished himself in grammar-school sports. Recalls Jim Francis, John's basketball coach for three years during elementary school: "He was a beautiful-looking little boy, a wonderful athlete, really a leader. He was the best basketball player on the team." No wonder the fa ther of such a child, told years later that his son was being held as an assassin, would scowl in disbelief...