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...rose in an effort to shake theirs. In Greece, the indomitable courage of students and workers undeterred by repression and torture brought down one dictator, though a more efficient one took his place. The ten-year independence struggle of Portugal's African colonies sparked revolutionary change within Europe's oldest dictatorship--change that isn't over yet, but whose unexpected depth and growth is testimony to the survival of people's love for freedom even under the most secure constraints...
Crooks vehemently denies, however, that the Summer School is primarily a money-making venture. "This money business is one of the oldest shibboleths about summer Schools," he says. "The whole University just sits here during the summer, and it would be idiocy not to put it to use. Harvard stopped that idiocy in 1871, and lately other Ivy schools have been trying to start similar programs of their own. It's harder to do now, because it's harder to make money." Universities trying to avoid wasting all their resources during the summer have tended lately...
Most of the stories in Christmas Eve were first published in The New Yorker between 1953 and 1973. The oldest and least characteristic deal with Herbert's Retreat, a cozy riverside community near New York that somewhat resembles Sneden's Landing. It is a world where the worst that can happen is to lose your Irish maid or private view of the Hudson. Plots turn on such matters as who will get nightly custody of an antique stone hot-water bottle. Though she deals ironically with such elegantly dated doings, Brennan never substitutes malice for wit-not even...
...humane society would let Condon off the hook. His early books, The Oldest Confession, The Manchurian Candidate and A Talent for Loving, are among the maddest funny novels of the last couple of decades. They seemed to have been written by Mephistopheles, raucous with glee at the insane excesses of the human creature. But Condon's last several books have been querulous and scolding...
Dale has been married for 17 years and is the father of four. "My wife Tricia, she's the oldest. The children are Belinda, 16, Murray, 14, Adam, 12, and Toby, who will be 10 this year if we let him." Because of his family, Dale is undecided about the onslaught of American offers since his Scapino triumph. "I am very selfish about family," he says. "I have only another few years until the children leave." Then, too, Director Dunlop is talking about a possible Jim Dale Henry...