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...Harvard lightweight crews scored runaway victories yesterday in the Henley Regatta, but the previously unbeaten Crimson junior varsity heavyweights were decisively beaten by a big, strong Lithuanian eight...
Sometimes, speaking of himself in the third person, Harvey seems to sense and to compulsively reveal what's eating him. "He was born under Russian-Lithuanian influences, and his parents' speech was broken English," he intones, "and he left his education far too early to pursue acting, which is so common and vulgar...
David Aronson, son of an immigrant Lithuanian rabbi, breaks the Torah's Second Commandment with exquisite verve He not only graves golden images, but even takes them from the Bible Their pinched faces and twisted bodies are distorted with the febrile passion of Aronson's acknowledged artistic influence, El Greco...
House Upon the Sand, by Jurgis Gliauda. A Lithuanian novelist who endured the German occupation in World War II studies the corrosive effect of Nazi bloodymindedness on a decent German aristocrat...
House Upon the Sand, a novel of savage ironies, belongs with the best of the literature on Nazidom. Written by a Lithuanian novelist who spent the war in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, it tells of a decent German aristocrat who turns into a Nazi killer with chilling ease. Messkirch, narrating the story of his own fall, is a well-to-do landowner in rural Germany. He takes pride in being a skeptic, a cut above the fanatical urban upstarts who are running the country. But in countless small ways, he betrays the weaknesses of character -the obtuseness, the occasional coarseness...