Word: marias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Division B, Barbie Grant and Toby Kellogg alternate at skipper for the Cliff and have been finishing behind M.I.T.'s Maria Buzzeppo, who seems to give the Engineers the depth they lacked last year...
Died. Erich Maria Remarque, 72, German-born novelist whose antiwar masterwork, All Quiet on the Western Front, sold more than 8,000,000 copies in 45 languages after its publication in 1929; in Locarno, Switzerland. A classic of pacifism, All Quiet focused on the tragic destiny of the defeated German soldier of World War I. The best of his later novels (Arch of Triumph, The Road Back, The Night in Lisbon) dealt with war-wasted human remnants moving across a charred European landscape. Remarque, whose second wife was Screen Actress Paulette Goddard, once said that "hatred is not a good...
...there is any deficiency in the novel it lies in our lack of preparation for BZ's confession of fellowship with Maria. To credit it to the hypocrisy-shattering side-effects of his homosexuality is not enough. Lord knows, in Hollywood, where homosexuality seems just another building block in the whole rotten institution, the posturing that goes into both concealing and flaunting homosexual tastes is just as appalling as all the other pretenses with which the town is infected. But then the novel is Maria's story, and that alone would prevent us from understanding more...
...dies in Maria's arms, but Maria, who "closed her eyes against the light and her ears against Helence and her mind against what was going to happen in the next few hours," goes on "living," playing it as it lays...
...Maria's logic-her lack of it-combined with the inescapable force of the entire novel, is devastating. (Which is why this piece could hardly qualify as a piece of criticism. How can you coolly discuss the elements of a work that so completely overwhelms you? Why would you even want to?) When you read those last two lines