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Lavette, part French, mostly Italian, is the main character of The Immigrants, Howard Fast's latest novel, which traces the history from 1889 to the present of a Jewish family, an Italian family and a Chinese family, all late-nineteenth century immigrants to America and to San Francisco. The book is raw and robust, like the expanding country it describes. Fast's prose is clean; his sentences are short; the pages are dense with human drama. His characters are carefully developed, realistic because they are unconscious of their roles in history. The Immigrants draws the reader into its drama, leads...
...Howard Fast is a very American writer. His powerful writing draws on a rich personal history tightly woven with the history of the country. Born in 1914, Fast struggled up from poverty in New York in the '30s, publishing his first book at 18. During World War II he found work as a war correspondent. By the end of the war he had embraced the Communist Party as a major force fighting for man's freedom, and by the end of the decade he had been tried in the fire of the nation's anti-communist paranoia. Brought before...
...what. Unless your uncle's name is Steinbronner or O'Malley, you will have to watch it the same way everyone else does...on the tube. That means bad reception and Howard Cosell, no telling which is worse, but I would rather fix the slipping vertical hold a hundred times than listen to one word from the mouth that roars. If you can stand him, Cosell continues his crustaceous commentary this Friday at 8 p.m. on Channel 5. Saturday and Sunday (if necessary) will feature afternoon games beginning at 4 p.m. The final games from Yankee stadium will interrupt prime...
...specials to liven up the week. There is nothing at all noteworthy on the film front. Channel 2 offers a debate on nuclear power tonight at 9 p.m. Governor Michael Dukakis will moderate the verbal clash between a former U.S. Treasury department deputy secretary and an attorney. Better than Howard Cossell, but just barely...
...brief, U.C. Davis contends that despite the destruction of formal racial barriers in the '60s, "all but two medical schools in the nation [Howard and Meharry] remained virtually all-white islands in a multiracial society," untill the introduction of racially-sensitive admissions procedures...