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Some of the mercenaries who haunt the place use right-wing watchwords like "dignity," "honor" and "Western decadence." "They are disgusted with Western society and want to prevent the Soviets from taking possession of Africa," says the owner, a former mercenary. Adds a Belgian journalist who covers the mercenary beat: "They are often out of work, racist but not politically aware. They think that everything is the fault of the migrant workers. They are not very sharp intellectually, are fascinated by weapons and very much into the cult of strength, virility and male camaraderie." Eventually, the mercenary ethos becomes...
...Brewer, owner of Brigham's, a traditional Phools' Week haunt, said he wasn't sure whether the Lampoon brigade stopped by this semester. "They may have--or they may have been nuts--we throw 'em all out," he said...
...than any Expos paper. Domini's authorial voice is far from polished, his imagery and recurrent motifs reveal some weird phobias and preoccupations, but by and large the events that unfold in real and unreal locales (two stories are set after death and one involves astral projection) compel and haunt...
...this impassioned father/son relationship, Brenman-Bibson finds the unresolved conflict that would haunt his future life and work. Off the stage, he would look for sympathetic father-figures among his male companions, and treat women with the attitude he learned from his father: fear of commitment led to a long string of unstaisfying love affairs. On the stage, Brenman-Bibson sees the onmipresent L. J. Odets lurking in the the employers, the Nazis, and all of the other tyrannical forces at the center of Odets's plays...
...haunt him until his death in 1959. This posthumous volume of fers some vital clues, among them a letter to an editor: "A long time ago when I was writing for pulps I put into a story a line li ke 'He got out of the car and walked across the sun-drenched sidewalk until the shadow of the awning over the entrance fell across his face like the touch of cool water.' They took it out when they published the story. Their readers didn't appreciate this sort of thing: just held up the action...