Word: noonday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short story, The Last Summer was first published in Leningrad 25 years ago, some two decades before Doctor Zhivago was written. Last year, with a shorter introduction (soso) and in the same translation (first-rate), the story appeared in the U.S. in a collection of poems and articles entitled Noonday 1. It sold an unexciting 10,000 copies. With a bustling campaign of come-on ads and a first printing of 250,000, Avon hopes to do better and tap the rich Zhivago market, now nearing the 1,000,000 mark...
When austerity-minded President Arturo Frondizi predicted last January that "a lowering of the standard of living is inevitable," the warning could hardly be heard for the sounds of high living. Over street fires, outdoor laborers at noonday broiled tender chunks of marbled beef that cost 8? a pound; white-collar workers lunched in restaurants on 17? beefsteaks so large they overlapped the dinner plates. Sundays brought an outdoor churrasco (barbecue) that began with meaty ravioli, went on to beef broiled over a pit fire...
...Gyangtse, a large trading center 100 miles southwest of Lhasa, the citizens attacked the Red Chinese garrison. From Phongdo, the force of Khambas and fighting monks pushed toward the capital. At week's end the Communist-run Lhasa radio failed to come on the air with its noonday newscast; more significantly, the radio carrier wave, which indicates a station is operating, could not be detected by monitors. On the snowy roof of the world, in an eerie radio silence, Red Chinese and Tibetan patriots were locked in struggle...
DESERT LOVE, by Henry de Montherlant (203 pp.; Noonday; $3.50), is convincing proof that the crudest hands a fictional Frenchman can fall into are those of a French novelist. Lucien Auligny is the creation of Author Montherlant (Perish in Their Pride, Pity for Women), who at his gentlest tells nothing less than the bitter truth and at his worst dismisses humanity with a sardonic jeer. Lucien is a lieutenant who commands an oasis outpost in French North Africa. He is not much of a man and not much of a soldier, and boring desert duty with a handful of French...
GIMPEL THE FOOL, by Isaac Bashevis Singer (205 pp.; Noonday; $3.50) is a collection of twelve tales about Polish Jews who are important to nobody except themselves, God and the devil. In these pages Satan and all his imps lope through the swamps and forests of Galicia. tempting a vain girl with an enchanted mirror, destroying a placid marriage, debauching the entire village of Frampol with dancing, vodka and banknotes. God comes slowly after, not to punish Satan for his mischief, but to apply his lash to the backs of sinful Jews...