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...prudent reviewer will therefore not make ringing pronouncements. But it is clear that TTT can stand on the same shelf with Gabriel Garcia-Marquez's very dissimilar One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the provocative obscurities of Jorge Luis Borges. A much-impressed norteamericano wonders what else is hidden in the Latin trunk...
...which was destroyed in A.D. 70 by vengeful Romans. Beyond the Wall stand Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, which marks the spot where Mohammed, around A.D. 620, is said to have started his remarkable "Night Journey" to the seven heavens in company with the Archangel Gabriel. Near by are the Via Dolorosa, the path that Christians believe was followed by Jesus on the way to his crucifixion, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which stands on the spot where, tradition has it, he was placed in his tomb...
...surprise of the week was Tuft's victory over second-ranked Wesleyan, 5-3. The Jumbos, led by sophomore Gabriel Gomez, recorded their eighth consecutive win of the season before falling to Amherst, 1-0, in overtime. Despite the loss, Tufts jumped from fourth to second in the New England ratings...
After Hedda, social problem yields the stage to religious search. John Gabriel Borkman and Arnold Rubek, the heroes of John Gabriel Borkman (1896) and When We Dead Awaken (1899), Ibsen's last two plays, are close portraits of the artist as an old man battling desperately to make some central sense of his life before it ends. Borkman, the industrialist, loses the battle. "Those mountains far away . . . those veins of iron ore, stretching their twisting, branching, enticing arms towards me . . . wanted to be freed. And I tried . . . But I failed." But Rubek, the artist, in the last scene...
Born. To Misha Dichter, 25, American piano prodigy who five years ago won second prize at the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow; and Cipa Dichter, 25, Misha's former classmate at Juilliard: their first child, a boy; in Manhattan. Name: Gabriel Sviatoslav...