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...Memed My Hawk, by Yashar Kemal. An appealing Turkish first novel tells the story of an Anatolian village lad who grows up to be a modern Robin Hood...
...play. For all his vilifying and blaspheming, he is the person who sees the truth and states it, that man had succumbed to warring, lechery, idiocy, and hybristic vainglory. Donald Harron is unforgettable in the part. But Landau may be unwise to make him pick his nose, hawk into a spittoon, and mix coffee cups with the slop; it is not easy for an audience to acknowledge the wisdom in the speech of a man with such repulsive personal habits...
...Here is a writer, a young new U.S. writer, who instinctively differentiates between the hawk of living and the handsaw of existing. Make no mistake, Ernest Hemingway is somebody; a new honest, un-'literary' transcriber of life-a Writer...
...Enigma. At 44, tough, hawk-faced little General Pak is an enigma, little known either to South Koreans or to the U.S. officers who, through the U.N. Korea Command, train, equip and largely control the tough, 600,000-man ROK army. A career officer who was trained in Japanese military schools, Pak was court-martialed for Communist activities as a South Korean officer in 1948, escaped with his life to become an anti-Communist-and the ROK army's chief of operations. He speaks little English, never made the study tour of U.S. military camps that has been...
Insiders nominate Bert Howard as the single most powerful individual. Though technically assistant to Bing Blasingame, he dominates policymaking, chairs the "legislative task force" that keeps a hawk-eyed watch on federal legislation, and swoops in to fight bills that run counter to A.M.A. principles. The headquarters' permanent staff inevitably wields great power. No one-year president, such as Larson, can dislodge it. A front runner for next year's presidency, who showed an itch to get the reins in his own hands, was shunted aside last week...