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...openly in the country began to challenge the old leadership, which consisted largely of members exiled in Europe and Latin America. During one confrontation, Socialist Leader Rodolfo Llopis was appalled to find González using his own name in politics. To placate Llopis, González adopted the nom de guerre Isidore. By 1972 González and his colleagues had wrested control of the party from the old guard. Two years later, he was elected secretary-general. Under González's leadership, the P.S.O.E. deftly positioned itself for the post-Franco era, outmaneuvering several other leftist...
...that two things they admired, American genre movies and existential philosophy, had one thing in common: an admiration for the heroic figure who defined himself and his code of personal honor by plain action rather than fancy words. Writer-Director Melville (who was born Jean-Pierre Grumbach, borrowed his nom de screen from his favorite American novelist, and died in 1973) was then very much a cantankerous outsider in the world of official French cinema. To scrape up the financing for Bob, Melville had to be a kind of existential hero himself. It says something about the lack of heroism...
Carpio has lived to a ripe old age for a Salvadoran revolutionary mainly because of a fanatical obsession with security. Until recently, he and his closest lieutenants always wore hoods at meetings to hide their real identities even from one another. Carpio was known only by his nom de guerre, Marcial. His daughter Guadalupe, also a Communist organizer, was killed during a political demonstration in El Salvador in 1980. The guerrillas' campaign in El Salvador, Carpio says, "has been a struggle of twelve years. Twelve years of spilling the blood of very valuable comrades, hundreds of the most valuable...
...scarcely missed. Here Dodgson, again under the nom de plume Lewis Carroll, is in full control of his genius. Gone is the Victorian treacle, the sentiment that seeped through his earlier writings. In its place is a premonitory feeling of dread. As always in Carrolliana, logic lies on one side and absurdity on the other. Between the two, humor leaps like a spark, illuminating the strange journey of an impossible crew (nine men whose occupations begin with B, plus a Beaver) in search of an inconceivable creature. It will ultimately consume one of them. At the end, there...
...homage to their classic, Italians last week celebrated the centennial of Pinocchio in the tiny Tuscan village of Collodi (pop. 1,800), where Author Loren-zini spent much of his childhood and whose name he later took as part of his nom de plume, Carlo Collodi. More than 12,000 visitors besieged the picturesque hillside village to tour "Pinocchio Park," a mini-Disneyland featuring outdoor sculptures and mosaics by Italian artists depicting characters out of the 19th century fable like Geppetto the Carpenter and the laughing serpent. Sated with free ice cream, schoolchildren were toted by donkeys past...