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...first time, Washington will host the citywide Annual High School Shakespeare Festival this month. "Other kids are scared to death to come down here to the inner city," chuckles Shakespeare Coach Aura Kruger. "They should all be scared to death of the competition." -By Guy D. Garcia. Reported by John E. Yang/Austin and Adam Zagorin/ New York
...staff of the Unidentified Flying Idea Adam S. Cohen '84, Associate Managing Editor L. Joseph Garcia '84, Associate Managing Editor Timothy W. Plass '85, Photography Chairman Alexander S. Rhinelander '85, Photography Chairman Michael D. Knobler '85, Sports Editor James W. Silver '84, Associate Sports Editor Sarah Paul '84, Associate Editorial Chairman Errol T. Louis '84, Magazine Editor Thomas J. Mayer '84, Assistant Magazine Editor Lavea Brachman '84, Assistant Features Editor David L. Parker '85, Associate Business Manager Jonathan M. Weintrauo '85, Advertising Manager Mathew A. Ross '85, General Manager Thomas L. Roach '84, Special Publications Manager Joan...
...inquire why the call for free speech that arose after the Kirkpatrick fiasco seems to apply only to those of the ambassador's political persuasion. The United States government recently refused entry visas to the widow of former Chilean leader Salvador Allende and to Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Both had been invited to address organizations in this country. Both are leftists. And both, like Kirkpatrick, should be able to make their voices heard in the United States without having to fight suppression-whether it be through violent disruption or political discrimination...
There is also Latin America's isolation and mournful history: the rise and fall of great pre-Columbian cultures, Spanish colonialism, wars of liberation and the unquiet peace of countless dictators. Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Márquez addressed this past last year when he accepted the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature from the Swedish Academy: "A reality not of paper, but one that lives within us ... and nourishes a source of insatiable creativity, full of sorrow and beauty." The problem, said the novelist, was how to tell the story. The region's writers found solutions...
...Garcia Márquez's success and critical reputation have undoubtedly boosted the fortunes of younger Latin authors like Brazil's Marcio Souza (Emperor of the Amazon), Colombia's Jaime Manrique (Colombian Gold) and Argentina's Manuel Puig (Kiss of the Spider Woman). Notes New York Translator and Agent Thomas Colchie: "In 1979, Souza sold Emperor of the Amazon for only $2,000. His forthcoming book, Mad Maria, went for $5,000, and his third has just been signed for $10,000." Colchie adds that Armando Valladares, the Cuban poet who was recently released after...