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Perhaps the freshest play is Ptakovina, by Milan Kundera, who is one of those fighting to keep the writers' union committed to the liberalization program of 1968. Kundera's novel of Czech Stalinism, The Joke, has the directness of a fist in the face; it has been made into a film shown at Cannes this year. Ptakovina is a made-up word, literally "Birdtrick," meaning stupidity...
Hard Luck. Quarry is one of three brawny, brawling brothers fathered by a former itinerant Irish club fighter who had the word HARD tattooed on his left fist and LUCK on his right. While bouncing between 30 different elementary and high schools in California, young Jerry broke his right hand punching a baseball umpire and suffered a twelve-stitch gash when someone shattered a pool cue over his head...
...Castroism is essentially romantic, evoking the image of the lone defiant man, bristling with machismo, who dares to shake his fist at the citadel of capitalism. Castro competes with Mao in dedication to fomenting revolution. Like Mao, he generalizes from his own success when he and a small band of guerrillas from the Sierra Maestra were able to take power. But unlike Mao, Castro contends that not a mass party, but a handful of armed intellectuals is sufficient to spark revolution among the Latin American peasantry. Bragging that he would turn the Andes into the Sierra Maestra of South America...
...Boston, who were all prep school classmates of the judge, to get him off, and they did. The judge said that he had been there to cover it for the Lampoon. To make the university authorities believe his reportage, too, the Lampoon published this issue, which bears the red fist of Jester choking Ibis on its cover. Narthex is happy to remain anonymous...
...press. At one dinner Look's George Leonard, author of numerous sympathetic studies of the ghetto, finally exploded at accusations: "Goddammit, that isn't true. The press has told it like it is time and again. Why haven't you read my stories?" He banged his fist on the table. One black tried to soothe him: "There's no use you getting frustrated, too. After all, our survival is involved." Immediately, another yelled: "No, goddammit, I've been frustrated all my life. Why shouldn't they be frustrated a little while...