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...openness in his native Hungary and other Communist societies. Dozens of Hungarian writers and scientists, actors and artists, who lack government endorsement and support for their activities, live on Soros Foundation grants. In addition, Soros is now bankrolling a dozen Hungarian high school graduates each year to study at Oxford. Earlier this month Soros flew to Moscow to see whether a "Glasnost" foundation could be established to test how serious Mikhail Gorbachev is about his new "openness" policy...
...irony described above and for which Naipaul is so justly famous. It isn't until then, more than a quarter of the way into his autobiographical novel in a section called "The Journey," that he describes his departure from his birthplace in Trinidad at age 18 to study at Oxford and "become a writer...
NAIPAUL NEVER escapes from a problem which he admits he had as an Oxford student: ignoring real life in favor of "metropolitan material," that undefined something that "the writer" is supposed to write about. The older narrator deplores the romantic fantasies he wrote when he was younger. Yet that is just what the book goes back to after the brief respite of "The Journey": a sappy fantasy of English country life, elaborating on what he already has said in the first section...
...unexaggerated. Director Oded Salomy avoids the difficulties posed by the script's Britishisms by setting his version in Boston rather than Pinter's London suburbs. The two lovers meet in a house in Belmont, instead of Wessex, and the two men bring speakers to Harvard and Yale, not Oxford and Cambridge. The flat does not need Hoovering, it needs vacuuming...
...losses were especially painful since individual event winners were guaranteed places on the combined Harvard-Yale team which will travel to England later this year to compete against a combined Oxford-Cambridge team...