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News Editor for This Issue: Kristin A. Goss '87 Night Editors: Maia E. Harris '88 David S. Hilzenrath '87 John N. Rosenthal '87 Editorial Editor: Nicholas S. Wurf '87 Feature Editor: D. Joseph Menn '87 Copy Editor: Martha A. Bridegam '89 Photo Editor: Bruce M. Kluckholn '87 Sports Editor: John A. Putnam '88 Business Editor: Marc N. Diker...
Kristin A. Goss '87 Night Editors: Maia E. Harris '88 David S. Hilzenrath '87 Joseph F Kahn '87 Joseph Menn '87 Matthew A. Saal '87 Feature Editor: Thomas J. Winslow '87 Sports Editor: Geoffrey H. Simon '88 Photo Editor: Bruce M. Kluckhohn '87 Copy Editor: Peter C. Krause '89 Business Editor: Dahlia Weinman...
...technique indicates that the ranks of torturers contain many sexual psychotics as well as sadists. At the same time, some victims testify that their torturers were visibly strained by the routine and took pills to soothe their nerves; Fred Morris says that one of his torturers, a certain Major Maia, used to explain that he was a fellow Christian who went to Mass every day on his way to work...
Last Hope. The Maias is a social chronicle on the grand scale, a 633-page epic that depicts the decline of the illustrious house of Maia, and with it the degeneration of the Portuguese aristocracy. The decline reaches the critical stage when Pedro da Maia shoots himself because his wife has run off with another man and taken her small daughter along. Fortunately for the Maias, Pedro's absconding spouse has left a son behind, and Pedro's aged father undertakes to regenerate the family by nurturing its last hope...
...Picassos done in the '30s are mostly domestic. Only one before 1939-that ol a nun torn asunder by a bomb during the Spanish Civil War-echoes the horror of Guernica. Picasso painted still lifes, a bird or two, portraits of Dora and Picasso's daughter Maia. But one da>' he finished an anguished woman who looked as if she were racked by some grisly disease. As World War II descended on Europe. Picasso's women became savage, lunatic figures done in colors that scream with rage. The agony vanished as suddenly as it came: once...