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...HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa. 422 pages. Harper...
...CLIVE GARCIA was photographed with his mother just before he returned to Viet Nam. He wrote a note on the back of it: "Your eyes are swollen. You've cried too much, Mom. Life itself really isn't this bad. We only have a few sad minutes, all we can do is accept and live with reality." He also told his mother that "it would happen and not to be sad." He said that he would be brought home by someone who loved him-"a grunt, Mom, a grunt like...
...road sweep. King, 21, died less than a week after reaching Viet Nam. Whitmer, 21, was killed on a patrol. West, 19, was shot near Quang Nam while serving with a landing team. Moncayo, 22, was part of an entire platoon wiped out by the enemy near Quang Tri. Garcia, 22, had volunteered to lead an unscheduled patrol in Quang Nam province when he was struck down by a booby trap...
...mothers of those who died have known some doubts. "It just doesn't seem right that such a small town gave so much," says Mrs. Martin West. "We've had enough." Mrs. Julia Garcia was troubled when she asked the officer who brought her son's body home whether Clive had died doing what he wanted to do-"and the captain wouldn't answer me." Now she expresses sentiments common to other mothers in Morenci. "As our boys died," she says, "I used to feel that it was such a waste. But I no longer feel...
...aristocratic mother, Luis became a brilliant pupil of Jesuit tutors. But upon reading Darwin's The Origin of Species, he started the opening battle in his long war against church and state. At the University of Madrid, he was an intimate of the revolutionary poet Federico Garcia Lorca and the genius-impostor Salvador Dali, with whom he shared two main interests, cinema and surrealism. Later, they made two pioneer films: The Andalusian Dog, notable for its explicit Freudian imagery and resolute non-meaning, and The Age of Gold, which contained frenzied images of a homicidal Christ figure. That succ...