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...HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa. 422 pages. Harper...
...Gabriel Garcia Márquez spent the first eight years of his life in Aracataca, a steamy banana town not far from the Colombian coast. "Nothing interesting has happened to me since," he has said. His experiences there were eventually transformed into a tenderly comic novel, just published in the U.S. after three years of enormous success in Latin America. It has survived export triumphantly. In a beautiful translation, surrealism and innocence blend to form a wholly individual style. Like rum calentano, the story goes down easily, leaving a rich, sweet burning flavor behind...
...Winners from Harvard and their fields of concentration are William A. Bell '70. Psychology; Kenneth J. Barnes '70. Economics; Peter M. Blumberg '70. Biochemistry; Gary E. Chamberlain '70, Economics; Brent E. deChene '70, Linguistics; Alexander J. Field '70, Economics; Richard A. Frank '70. Psychology; Gregory B. Gabriel '70. History; Lawrence F.Kohl '70, American History: Albert B. Masters '70, English; John B. McBrearty '70. Social Relations; Edward McGaffigan Jr, '70. Physics; Henry C. Pinkham '70, Mathematics: Alan M. Polinsky '70, Economics; Robert T. Teske '70, Folklore and Classics; Peter M. Thomas '70, English: David W. Tresemer '70, Social Psychology; Paul...
Consensus historians have generally given high marks to the "Progressive Era" of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and to F.D.R.'s New Deal, for accomplishing significant reform within a democratic framework. The revisionists are not willing to concede so much. To Gabriel Kolko of the State University of New York at Buffalo, the Progressive Era represented not the bridling of predatory big business by the Federal Government but rather the capture of Government by business. In The Triumph of Conservatism, Kolko argues that most Government regulation was enacted at the behest of leading corporations, which wanted railroad legislation, meat...
...Komar classes; one of the Osas stunned Israel in October 1967 by sinking the destroyer Elath with a Styx missile. After the Six-Day War, Israel ordered a dozen vessels, each with a French hull, German engines and Italian electronics, including the 20-mile surface-to-surface Gabriel missile...