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...TENNIS HANDSOME by Barry Hannah Knopf; 166 pages...
Readers who follow the work of Author Barry Hannah may feel a touch of déjà vu upon beginning his fifth book. The Tennis Handsome opens with two pieces from Airships (1978), Hannah's highly praised collection of short stories. The first, Return to Return, retells the gothic catastrophe of French Edward, a good-looking tennis pro who discovers his mother in bed with his supposedly homosexual coach, nearly drowns in the Mississippi River and is fished out with most of his mental capacities washed away. He lives on as an automaton who is still a terror...
...Manhattan's New School for Social Research, at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, at California universities, the refugees not only adapted but also became the "advance men" of new ideas, as Heilbut puts it. Paul Tillich combined theology with aesthetics; Hannah Arendt made philosophy and history partners in The Origins of Totalitarianism; Einstein continued to measure the boundaries of space as he weighed the causes and cures...
...while cuddling a baby fox. His deputy, Denis Healey, 65, was just as busy. In York he sat down at a piano to play a funeral march-"to remind everyone where Thatcher is taking us"-and then took up the chorus of an old American barroom tune, Hard Hearted Hannah, "a girl from Savannah who pours water on a drowning man." Quipped Healey: "That is just what she is doing to the British economy...
...masterwork The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt argued that Hitler and Stalin used terror as a tool to fabricate a new kind of man devoid of individualism and self-respect, Didion correctly sees a similar phenomenon taking place in EI Salvador Indiscriminate, random killing deemphasize the value of human existence Murder no longer shocks Salvadorans; it is a natural part of life...