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"I Will Bring Evil." The supreme irony of it all is that Verwoerd's assassin apparently thought so too. Dimitrio Tsafendas had been a drifter who hated the world. He speaks eight languages, has traveled all over the world as a merchant seaman-and has been confined in mental...
Sir: The half-outraged, half-defensive statement by self-described "gun fanatic" Charles A. Whitman, father of Mass Murderer Charles J. Whitman, that "I raised my boys to know how to handle guns" echoes the plaintive wail of another father, Willy Loman, protagonist of Death of a Salesman, who in...
Yet beneath the easy, tranquil surface of both family and boy there flowed some unusual undercurrents. Charlie was trained to use guns as soon as he was old enough to hold them?and so were his brothers. "I'm a fanatic about guns," says his father, Charles A., 47. "I...
In the first novels from abroad, the explorations are cautious but skillful. The Time of the Hero (Grove Press) by Mario Vargas Llosa, 28, a Paris-based Peruvian, is a social satire so harrowingly powerful that 1,000 copies were publicly burned in Lima. Vargas sets up the national military...
Robert Ardrey's script much too neatly points up the similarity between fanatic Mahdi and fanatic general, and invents two dramatic confrontations between them that never occurred. But such blatant departures from history are rare. Vividly directed by Basil Dearden, Khartoum evokes the spirit and likeness of a brave...