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FICTION 1-Curtain, Christie (1 last week) 2-Ragtime, Doctorow (2) 3-The Choirboys, Wambaugh (3) 4-The Greek Treasure, Stone (4) 5-In the Beginning, Potok (5) 6-Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Rossner (8) 7-The Eagle Has Landed, Higgins (6) 8-Shogun, Clavell (10) 9-Humboldt's Gift, Bellow (7) 10-Nightwork, Shaw...
...really interesting in The Secular Scripture is the theory of society Frye develops to make the distinction between "myth" (the central canon of a society) and "romance" (stories on the periphery of a society). Again the argument is heady, based on Plato and Christianity's abridgement of the Greek philosopher to form a "hierarchy of verbal structures." In a quick and hopelessly inadequate phrase, this means some types of stories are "in" in a particular society and others are "out." What's accepted at one point may be unaccepted at another, but always the romance, the lowest form...
...situation in Southern Europe," says Robert Pontillon, national secretary of the French Socialist Party. "There is a dynamism on the left, but we can't reach power without an alliance with the Communists. Unless the U.S. wants to deal only with the likes of Franco and the Greek colonels, Kissinger must admit the reality of Southern Europe, including large Communist parties...
...Greek Treasure, Stone...
Egypt, wrote the Greek historian Herodotus, is the gift of the Nile. He was right; Egypt-or at least its most populous and fertile area-was formed by the rich silt washed down from the East African highlands by the waters of the Nile. But which Nile? According to Egypt's leading geologist, Rushdi Said, 55, the present-day Nile is a relative newcomer to Egypt, having been around for only 30,000 years. Before that, he says, at least four different Niles had flowed through-and then disappeared from-the river basin...