Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hellman. The reports of her death may have been exaggerated. Evidence is presented that Sarah lives on, the beneficiary of a life-insurance scam. She is important to the author only because she survives in the mind, one ghost among many...
...there are only graffiti, polemics and school lessons." He goes on to find history "less an attempt to record and understand than a habit of reordering inconvenient facts; it is a process of forgetting." Naipaul understands that Eva Peron, the brunette who dyed her hair blonde, whose autobiography is ghost-written to conceal an illegitimate birth, is the appropriate symbol for a nation which has forgotten its beginnings...
Naipaul himself meditates in these essays, providing vivid observations, adept analysis, and a command of detail. He brings us in to the ghost town of Montevideo's stopped clocks and neglected monuments, and he makes us weary of the endless muddy river of Zaire. Details in Naipaul's hands naturally, effortlessly fill out his pictures. He uses them to emphasize the very large difference between what he sees in each country and what he hears from their leaders...
Every actor sends at least one memorable chill up the spine. Monica (Katharine J. Kean), with her pristine appearance and voice, looks a bit too pure to be a daughter of Baba, but is excellent as the innocent ghost of a dead child. When she sings as a false spirit, her clean, lifeless half-tones convincingly conjure up the image of a dead child searching for her mother...
...great cultural systems competing for the Chinese soul, and Liang himself lacks either the record or the lasting intellectual power to rank him as the last, best hope of the traditional order of China. Throughout the book, Alitto juxtoposes Liang and Mao, always hinting that Liang is the ghost of the Chinese past that dogged Mao until his death...