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...most of his life Stefan Bandera was an angry, fanatic outcast, dedicated to a lost cause. His cause was Ukrainian independence, and so hard did Bandera struggle for it that Soviet propaganda refers to all members of the Ukrainian underground as "Banderovtsy." The son of a Ukrainian Catholic priest, Stefan joined the Ukrainian underground in high school, and knew no other occupation. In 1934, when Bandera was sentenced to death for the assassination of Polish Interior Minister Bronislav Pieracki (for Ukrainians regarded both Poles and Russians as usurpers), the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, presumably to prevent a Ukrainian...
Look Back in Anger. John Osborne's dramatic milestone about a young English outcast who actually looks back in madness more than anger, filmed in an atmosphere that suggests a dripping winter morning in the English Midlands. With Richard Burton, Mary Ure, Claire Bloom...
...looks up to the treed man. Cosimo has adventures with bandits and pirates that Douglas Fairbanks Sr. would have been embarrassed to find in a movie script, and enjoys a love affair that is as notable for its acrobatics as for its passion. He is neither an outcast nor a misanthrope. In fact, he is a heroic do-gooder whose office just happens to be a forked tree...
...always be a stranger among the people," Knut Hamsun once wrote prophetically. Seven years ago Norway's greatest soth century writer died an outcast, . reviled as a quisling by his own countrymen. "A more eminent disciple of Nietzsche than any German" in Thomas Mann's judgment, Knut Hamsun was a peasant's son who grew up in Norway's far north, wandered as a hobo through Illinois and the Dakotas of the '80s, and buried himself in a remote corner of Norway to write novels (Growth of the Soil, Pan, Hunger) of great depth...
Died. Albert Namatjira, 57, big-boned aboriginal artist who at 31 began painting Western-style watercolor landscapes in the Australian wilds, which became highly popular in civilized Australia; of a heart attack; in Alice Springs, Australia. Namatjira (Flying Ant) used his fame to press for equal rights for his outcast fellow aborigines, but he enjoyed many of their tribal ways, basked in the adulation of some 60 relatives among whom he freely divided his income, finally won full citizenship and with it the right to buy liquor, which he hauled out to his friends for some wild times, ended...