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...Chicago in November, followed by a string of European dates. He describes himself unhappily as "homeless" but says he would like to educate his son in the U.S.: "Here, schoolchildren would give a great diversity of answers in their essays about Crime and Punishment. There is more thinking for oneself...
Lending vigor to student demonstrations are many factors: frightful crowding, unremitting competition, basic insecurity, frustration of aspirations for modernity, indignation at corruption and Party elitism, personal ambition to lead the new generation, patriotic readiness to sacrifice oneself for the cause of betterment. The best formula is to talk to Chinese students now at Harvard and to try to make your own mixture...
...relationship between Flaubert and Emma Bovary emerges as a passionate substitute for real life. "The one way of tolerating existence," he wrote, "is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy." In turn, Vargas Llosa pulls off a great escape by transforming criticism into a sensual romp. It is a delightful experience, for it is not often that an international man of letters admits to preferring pornography to science fiction and sentimental stories to horror tales. Perhaps even more daring is his avowal of old-fashioned formalism, of books "that are rigorously and symmetrically constructed, with a definite...
...when the French Postes Telephones Telecommunications seeded a village in Brittany with 1,500 free terminals, the operation today boasts a network of 2 million units. Minitel's success has been so astounding that the French government is attempting to export the system to the U.S. "To find oneself at a Minitel screen able to converse freely with four or five people is new -- there is no equivalent," says Francois de Valence, editor of the glossy Minitel magazine. "It's like an electronic cafe...
That survey found that the most boring behaviors were banality, such as talking about trivial or superficial things or showing interest in only one topic, and "negative egocentrism," which essentially meant complaining about oneself and showing disinterest in others...