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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...publishing houses 13 times, and how two of his earlier books, Legs and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, seemed doomed to remain a dyad rather than parts of the trilogy their author had planned. Enter a deus ex machina in the person of Saul Bellow, a Nobel laureate, no less, who administered a scolding to those who had rebuffed Kennedy's manuscript and thereby inaugurated a streak of magic. When Ironweed finally appeared in 1983, it won a fistful of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, not to mention a sale to Hollywood for a big-budget adaptation (Jack Nicholson! Meryl...
...During the next two days a group that included a Chilean judge, Amnesty Attorney Maximo Pacheco, colony lawyers and representatives of the West German government was allowed inside the colony. According to Pacheco, the group identified four underground rooms that matched descriptions by DINA torture victims. The visitors had less luck with their request to interview Jurgen Szurgelies, 24, who was returned to the colony by local authorities after escaping last month. The West German embassy ; in Santiago has initiated a case in a Chilean court to put Szurgelies under legal protection, and the court is expected to decide this...
With this film, Itami is less a knockabout ironist, more a sly cinematic Dostoyevsky. The clues to this secret identity lie in his sudden alternations of mood between quiet and noisy desperation, his fascination with the moral force of the holy fool -- the part the director's graceful wife Miyamoto is essentially playing -- and, above all, his allusions to Crime and Punishment. As in the great novel, it is a tenacious detective's patience that forces the final confession a criminal requires for his soul's peace. But the entertaining dexterity with which Itami plays this potentially heavy hand...
...flight business, law and education schools and a respectable, if not quite superlative, humanities program, and you get major headaches for recruiters at rival institutions. Moans a Yale University admissions officer: "Stanford's got everything -- great climate, great physical plant, terrific extracurriculars and, increasingly, world-class academics." No less impressed, Cornell University President Frank Rhodes declares, "Stanford is not simply a great national institution, but one of the world's great institutions." That collegial admiration was reflected last October in a U.S. News & World Report survey in which university presidents were asked to choose the nation's best colleges. Stanford...
...life-style and mood of the student body that most distinguish Stanford from its rivals across the Rockies. "In the East, students seem to be working harder than they are; here the kids are working harder than they seem to be," observes Kennedy. Western students, he adds, "have a less passionate concern for politics and high culture. There is a natural antipathy to what they see as an elitist dimension to high culture...