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...early '20s. Along with Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, the book became a popular symbol of the antimilitarism and distrust of glorious causes that flourished between the wars. Published in the U.S. in 1930-with Švejk spelled Schweik-the book, illustrated by Josef Lada, became a bestseller. The editors of that day discreetly excised more than one-third of the text, because of Švejk-Schweik's scatological expressions. This new version by Sir Cecil Parrott of the University of Lancaster translates every excremention that Švejk is prone...
...them, trim in tight bathing suits, seem more interested in the beefcake varsity football squad than in Paul, who spends a good deal of his time reading The Myth of Sisyphus and contemplating the infinite sorrow of existence. A crush on a sexy cheerleader named Christine (Lada Edmund Jr.) gets him into trouble with the gum-snapping football star (Jon Voight) and makes him, if not entirely a man, at least more than...
...Thailand's Chakri dynasty two centuries ago, the U.S. was allowed to erect a giant antenna for the President's worldwide communications; normally, the Thais are reluctant to permit structures to soar higher than their ubiquitous Buddhist temples. When Johnson choppered into the Royal Plaza near Chitra-lada Palace for his audience with King Bhumibol Adulyadej and the lovely Queen Sirikit, he was allowed to wear a business suit instead of the traditional cutaway...
Fragility & Philosophy. Everywhere he practices what he calls his "direct and musical approach." In Bangkok last spring, he walked up to Chitra Lada Palace, took out his 100-year-old handmade guitar (picked up in London for $112) and said he wanted to entertain the King of Thailand. He was invited to tea, where a group of high-ranking officials were stiffly collected. He started with some flamenco. Queen Sirikit asked if he wouldn't play something from his own country, like Danny Boy. He played Danny Boy as if it were a New London dairy air. The Thais...
When veteran Suburb Builder Andres F. Oddstad Jr., boss of "Homes by Sterling," broke ground for Linda Mar, the already overburdened local (Laguna Sa-lada) school district found itself facing a 50% increase in enrollment. Required for the new pupils: additional school buses (cost: $60,000) and double or triple classroom shifts in the district's three schools. Funds were short; conventional new public schools would take months, perhaps years, to finance and build...