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...factions, friend and foe, are suffused by Pasternak with a profound pity, and their death is mourned. In one of the more fascinating passages, he introduces a village witch in Siberia who, even in the dawn of scientific socialism, clings to her visions. She prophesies: "Take your red banner. You think it's a flag, isn't that what you think? Well, it isn't a flag. It's the purple kerchief of the death woman...
...newly published memoirs, Britain's brilliant, opinionated Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein stepped on the toes of old friends and old foes alike. Most of the old friends shrugged it off: "You know Monty." But one old foe, the Italians, complained that Montgomery had pictured their World War II soldiers as something less than lions...
...left of their millet, sweet potatoes and peanuts. "If there is a lack of anything," Red China's Defense Minister Marshal Peng Teh-huai broadcast to the people of Quemoy, "just tell us and we shall give it to you. It is time now to turn from foe to friend...
...Spiegel give its cover and ten inside pages to such an irascible foe? The answer is as plain as the chip on Der Spiegel's shoulder. Like last week's guest, Der Spiegel rejoices in the immoderate attack, has soared to success partly on the objective of calculated, fight-picking, journalistic cussedness. "Our formula," said Chief Editor Hans Detlev Becker, explaining Der Spiegel's Q-and-A interview policy, "is deliberately aggressive. We want to provoke a clash of opinions." Der Spiegel got what it wanted: angry letters from 200 readers...
Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery. Prickly Monty needles friend and foe in this highly personal autobiography...