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...fair, not shrewd." Dialogues between exasperated father and nincompoop son appear to be modeled on the old radio sketches of Jack Benny and Dennis Day. David: "Do you understand what I'm saying to you about Joab? Do not let his hoar head go peacefully down to the grave." Solomon: "What's a hoar head?" After one particularly frustrating session, David tries to get rid of the young man by telling a servant to "show him the door." Replies Solomon: "I've seen the door...
Halfway around the globe from Shakespeare's grave, the normally conservative government of the Australian of Victoria has heeded the curse of the Bard, and by doing so has shocked the scientific establishment. Because of tightened state laws, the University of Melbourne must relinquish its important collection of several hundred human bones between 9,000 and 13,000 years old. They will go to the Victoria Museum, where a panel will decide whether the bones should be reinterred. The move was yet another victory for Australia's native people, the aborigines, who, in an effort to reclaim their...
...without charges since November. Nkomo, whose guerrillas joined forces with Mugabe's during the struggle for black majority rule, was booted out of Zimbabwe's coalition Cabinet in 1982 for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government. "Any coercion leading to the one-party state is digging a grave for Zimbabwe and will lead to disaster," Nkomo said last month. Smith, whose Conservative Alliance holds seven of the 20 seats reserved for whites in the 100-seat House of Assembly, charged that one-party rule would "mean we are prepared to forgo our freedoms, the basic fundamental rights enshrined...
...nothing-burger." The Republican Senate joined the Democratic House in passing non-binding resolutions asking Reagan to withdraw the appointment, which did not require Senate confirmation. Last week Burford decided not to take the un-salaried post, claiming that the "unwarranted furor" had done "grave disservice to your outstanding record on the environment." There was relief in the White House and in the Reagan-Bush re-election committee at her action, although one presidential adviser complained, "We hung with her all this time, trying to do something nice for her, and then she turns around and slaps...
...Gordimer a one-subject writer. Of the title novella and nine stories that make up Something Out There, four have nothing to do with apartheid or South Africa. Letter from His Father is a jeu d'esprit altogether outside the land of the living. From beyond the grave, Hermann Kafka answers a famous message left by his son Franz: "You wrote me a letter you never sent. It wasn't for me-it was for the whole world to read. (You and your instructions that everything should be burned. Hah!)" The old man is not content simply...