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Wherever and whenever man moves, he takes with him an enemy-the rat. Sly, hardy and resilient, it rode with Marco Polo and voyaged with Magellan, Cabot and countless captains of tramp steamers. And like any ocean-bored traveler, the first thing a rat did was to get off the moment the ship docked...
...Basilio. She intends to research a study of the near medieval lives of contemporary southern Italian women, but she soon gets far more than she asks for. Her friend Marina, a schoolteacher, turns out to have been the secret mistress of the previous occupant of the apricot house: Marco Santoro, a gifted teacher and that anomaly in San Basilio, "a hopeful...
...lovers awaken each other from the trance that is life in San Basilio, but the town hates a survivor. To be happy is to earn a curse. When Marina crumbles at the prospect of malice and decides to abort their child, Marco kills himself-apparently. Even suicide is subtle in San Basilio. The sight of lives strangled by dead traditions offends Miss Cornelisen to the bottom of her reforming American soul. "Change is possible," she insists. "The future cannot be postponed forever." But what gives her theme the tension of tragedy is that she also loves her characteis- God help...
...Torregreca, this division of the soul turned into art. In Vendetta of Silence, the writing is brilliant but fragmented-a composite of diaries (A.C.'s and Marco's), letters and tape recordings. It is as if the writer were walking around her subject in the fullness of her eloquence, in the fullness of her heart, trying to find the way in. The final punishment for San Basilic is not that its people are cut off from the rest of the world but that they are cut off from themselves. "Sympathy cannot penetrate real desperation," Miss Cornelisen writes. That...
Reverse Discrimination As a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Washington, Marco De Funis Jr., 22, had naturally assumed that he would be accepted by the university's law school. He was not, either last year or this year when he reapplied. Aspiring lawyer that he was, De Funis went to court. The main point at issue was that the admission of 30 minority-group students with lower grades and aptitude scores showed discrimination against him in violation of the Constitution's equal protection clause...