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...summer of 1966. I am sixteen. I am living in the house-i.e., stockade-of the Chief of Staff of the Royal Laotian Army and Air Force. I am eating breakfast with mon general, who is rarely at home in Vientiane. "He is with the army, cherie." In my sweetest voice [You can talk to me, I'm just a dumb girl . . . .], in my best high school French, I ask, "Please, mon general, tell me, how goes la guerre...
...Mon general, a very fat and jolly man, grins at me toothlessly. "Mais, cherie, quelle guerre?" I learn later that the general does indeed spend a lot of time with the army, his army-guarding his holdings in Northern Thailand, supervising opium and gold smuggling by the Air Force and the army...
...mon King of the Jews...
...having its U.S. premiere at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater. Another tentative meaning might be that life is a mystery on a scale that reduces the solution of a murder to the pettiest of puzzles. Since Marguerite Duras is a French novelist and a scenarist (Hiroshima, Mon Amour), still another specifically Gallic meaning to be drawn from her play is that the heart has its reasons that reason knows...
...time or another, nearly every college sophomore has clapped his roommate on the shoulder and said: "C'mon, Oedipus, she's old enough to be your mother." Or greeted a sleepy-eyed coed at a 9 a.m. classics lecture with a cheery "Morning doesn't become you, Electra"." Jejune jests, to be sure, but they reflect post-Freudian man's easy familiarity with once intricate Sophoclean themes. If familiarity does not always breed contempt, it often produces apathy...