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...best novel, Blood of the Lamb, Peter DeVries wrote obliquely about his daughter's leukemia. Stewart Alsop collected nerve and wits long enough during a remission to write Stay of Execution about his own plight before he died. Football Player Brian Piccolo's death became first a fond memoir by his friend Gale Sayers, then a TV film called Brian's Song. Now Freelance Writer Doris Lund offers Eric, a book about her son's successful four-year struggle to live courageously as this disease slowly destroyed...
...currently at battle strength and are so close on the Golan Heights that they face each other in a "no-warning" standoff. In the event of renewed fighting, the Syrians would probably seek to lure the Israelis into Syrian territory and inflict high casualties; Damascus, the Syrians are fond of saying, rightly or wrongly, would be like Stalingrad...
Rafto's roommates are not so fond of his running. "Just smell his socks, then tell what you think of him," one ribbed. But Rafto evaded the remark as he slipped out the door for his afternoon jaunt...
...Grandmother, a redoubtable 86-year-old Yankee. She not only reminisces and airs her views on birth control and abortion (she is for both), but considers the approach of her own death with a gentle dignity. Coolidge inserts herself directly into her own film, as interrogator and fond grand child and, most tellingly, as explorer, searching for a way back into her own past. This same personal approach is carried even further in the fourth of the quartet by Martin Scorsese's (Mean Streets) singular Italianamerican, which is a portrait of Scorsese's parents as well...
Moon is a man of many faces. To some, he is a Korean exemplar of Americanism and anti-Communism who merits fond words from the superpatriotic Sons of the American Revolution. To others, he is an international educator who lures students to indoctrination seminars with guest lectures by such big-name academics as Political Scientists Roger Hilsman and Samuel P. Huntington...