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...PROPHET OUTCAST, by Isaac Deutscher. The final volume of an excellent biographical trilogy on Trotsky, in which Stalin is shown using the immense apparatus of international Communism to stalk his old rival from country to country, to murder his sons, and finally to strike down the tough old man himself...
...PROPHET OUTCAST, by Isaac Deutscher. The last and most dramatic volume in this definitive biography of Leon Trotsky, the odd man out of the Communist revolution who died as he lived, fiercely but in vain...
...PROPHET OUTCAST by Isaac Deutscher. 543 pages. Oxford...
...maids (Lee Grant and Kathleen Widdoes) dress up in their mistress' finery and plot her murder by poisoning her tea. The mistress (Eunice Anderson) avoids drinking the tea. One maid commits suicide, and the other expects to hang. For Genet, the theater is an instrument of the outcast's fantasized revenge: his characters ritually murder the authority they hate and envy by donning the vestments of the powers that be and play-acting their roles. In The Maids, this proves to be no more scarifying than little children playing grown-ups in their parents' clothing...
...life Apollinaire was troubled by his outcast state. From 1904 to 1911 he mocked society by making his living as an editor of a pornographic series called The Masters of Love, by pamphleteering for any new form of poetry or painting that turned up, by sprinkling his three volumes of poetry and various phantasmagoric novels with scabrous puns and salacious posturings. But when the war began, he enlisted in the army-which he did not have to do as a foreigner-and proved a tough and durable soldier until he was hit in the head by shrapnel...