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Except for their personal anguish, the Czechoslovaks separated from home and family by the invasion have little in common with the usual refugees from other Communist lands and crises. They are, by and large, skilled, well educated and often relatively well off. A son of Karel Ancerl, who has been...
After downing five cognacs during a flight from Stuttgart to Hannover last March, Adolf ("Bubi") von Thadden, 47, leader of West Germany's radical rightist National Democratic Party, cruised out of the airport and crunched his Mercedes 200D into a construction barricade. That boozy little episode has cost him...
Enervated Limbo. Armah's anonymous antihero, referred to as "the man," works in a dim, suffocating traffic-control center, where he tracks the erratic routing of decrepit trains he never sees. The scene suits his mental state, for he lives in the cheerless, enervated limbo of post-revolution letdown...
But tribalism is not only the black man's burden; it is also the ground of his being, and therein lies its strength. Nearly every Black African, even the most elegant minister in Savile Row suits, with a Mercedes in his garage, is a member of one of the continent...
Like Stanley Grant, Behrman went to Salzburg in 1937, and the memory of a doom-laden summer started him on the book, the only novel he plans to write, nearly two decades later. "I knew what was coming," he said. "The streets were choked with Mercedes full of Nazis. But...