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Contino likes to tell how his father came to the U.S. from Sicily and set up as a butcher in Fresno. (At this point, he usually produces papa, and papa sings in Italian.) His mother's brother, christened Raffaele Giordano but better known as Young Corbett III, onetime world welterweight champ (1933), thought young Dick would make a good fighter; he has big hands. But from twelve on, Dick has wanted to sing and play the accordion...
Exam group i--June 7, ii--June 6, iii--June 4, iv--May 31, v--June 8, vi--May 29, vii--June 1, viii--June 5, ix--June 1, x--June 12, xi--June 2, xii--May 28, xiii--June 11, xiv--June 9, xv--June 12, xvi--June 7, xvii--May 29, xviii--June...
...this scene and with these words, Novelist Jean-Paul Sartre, biggest postwar noise in France, declares the text of Volume III in his long existential sermon, the four-volume novel called The Roads to Freedom. Sartre's richly rewarded purpose is to trace the stink of defeat to its sources in the French soul and, before he is through, to demonstrate the uses of existentialism as a spiritual disinfectant-or at least deodorant...
Freedom? The first two volumes, The Age of Reason and The Reprieve, took a rough sample of prewar French society-a painter, a Communist, a professor, a prostitute, a homosexual, a student, and so on-and presented episodes of their case histories in the months before the war. Volume III, Troubled Sleep, carries the same characters through the first few weeks after the fall of France...
...Troubled Sleep, Sartre's characters get to know the bottom of the abyss very well. The news of Volume III of his tetralogy is that some of Sartre's Frenchmen are beginning to see a way out. Says one of them, a Christian: "Let us abandon the idea that our defeat was the effect of chance . . . When a man believes he is the innocent victim of a catastrophe and sits wringing his hands, unable to understand what has happened to him, is it not good news for him to be told that he is expiating his own fault...