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...leader of the opposition is Crested Butte's paraplegic mayor, an émigré from Aspen who likes to style himself as simply W (no period) Mitchell. (He was born William John Schiff III in Philadelphia, but adopted his stepfather's name.) For the past four years, the wheelchair-bound Mitchell, 38, who was badly burned in a motorcycle accident ten years ago and paralyzed in a plane crash four years later, has tirelessly attacked AMAX and questioned its assurances that the mine will do no harm. Noting that up to 20,000 tons of ore will...
...write about the Old World seems even riskier. An émigré issues a warning that is to echo down to the days of Philip Roth: "The scribblers here try to persuade the reader that the shtetl was a paradise full of saints. So comes along someone from the very place and he says 'stuff and nonsense!' They'll excommunicate you here, but don't be alarmed...
...someone had returned to me a missing part of my body!" Cellist-Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich exclaimed in Washington. The Russian é migré maestro could be excused the hyperbole. Other Soviet figures have sought artistic freedom in the West, but few could match the poignant symbolism of last week's defection drama. In a stunning rebuff to Kremlin cultural politics, the son and grandson of the Soviet Union's most celebrated contemporary composer the late Dmitri Shostakovich, decided to join Rostropovich in exile and petition the U.S. State Department for asylum...
...familiar to serious students of poetry. Otherwise he is little known outside Poland and the Slavic language department of the University of California at Berkeley. Yet last week Czeslaw Milosz (pronounced Chess-wahf Mee-wash), 69, an émigré poet-scholar and naturalized American citizen, won the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature...
...Milosz, his wife and two sons moved to Berkeley, where the poet joined the faculty of the University of California. Reminiscent of another émigré professor, Vladimir Nabokov, the new laureate has a reputation as a dazzling lecturer...