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...life. In his elegiac novel, The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa chronicles this transformation. But The Leopard is more than a retelling of aristocratic decline. It is also a voyage through the consciousness of Don Fabrizio, who struggles to make sense of the paradox presented to him by his revolutionary nephew, Tancredi: "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." Partially tied to the old order, partially sympathetic with the new, and yet truly part of neither, Don Fabrizio's mind refracts the differences and similarities between the feudal landowners and the assertive middle class...
...After the Murder contains a family of suspects, any one of whom could plausibly be the criminal; and as in most mysteries, these people are thrown together in an implausible situation. After the death of old Mr. Enderby and the murder of his sister, the surviving relatives gather at nephew Hector's hotel for a riding holiday - just the thing to perk one up after two dreary funerals...
...giant haciendas and occupied Mexico City in the bloody 1910 revolution. In those days, 835 rich families controlled 97% of the country's cultivated land. But not for long. In 1913, leading a band of armed riders, Revolutionary Major Lucio Blanco seized the 370-acre estate of a nephew of deposed Dictator Porfirio Diaz. Blanco divided the land, and seven campesinos were ushered to their new property. That was 50 years ago this week...
...Ethridge could indulge his retirement plan to teach a once-a-week seminar on newspaper management at the University of North Carolina. The rest of the time he would run the paper and hold a sort of private seminar for Newsday Staffer Joseph Patterson Albright, 26, Alicia's nephew, whose succession to Harry Guggenheim's paper and Mark Ethridge's new job is, according to present schedules, only a matter of time...
...Leopard. "If we want things to stay as they are, things have to change." The Prince of Salina (Burt Lancaster) abruptly stops shaving and turns to stare in irritation at his favorite nephew (Alain Delon). Can Tancredi seriously mean to suggest that he, Salina of Sicily, should lick the boots of the new bourgeoisie? The prince is a proud man, as proud as the Leopard ramping on his princely scutcheon. But he is not a fool; he knows as well as Tancredi that in the spring of 1860 bourgeois boots are on the march from the Alps to Africa. Garibaldi...