Word: parrott
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...Published in the U.S. in 1930-with Švejk spelled Schweik-the book, illustrated by Josef Lada, became a bestseller. The editors of that day discreetly excised more than one-third of the text, because of Švejk-Schweik's scatological expressions. This new version by Sir Cecil Parrott of the University of Lancaster translates every excremention that Švejk is prone...
...translation was also a lot shorter--it ended with Svejk, dressed in a Russian uniform, being captured by the Austrian army, whereas Parrott's new one tells all about his subsequent trial. It also includes many of the digressions that Paul Selver cut out. Some of the digressions are extremely funny--for instance, Animal World magazine's ex-editor's description of the Sulphur-Bellied Whale, the Artful Prosperian, the Edible Ox ("the ancient prototype of the cow") and the Sepia Infusorian ("which I characterized as a sort of sewer rat")--and others are hardly funny...
...HASEK's life, no less than his book, suggests that under the right circumstances there are other options open to people besides self-protective passivity in the face of martyrdom. As a young man--Parrott tells the story in an illuminating introduction--Hasek behaved in many ways like the people in The Good Soldier Svejk. Dissatisfied with the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Austria-Hungary, with the parliamentary politicking the monarchy permitted, and with the middle-class respectability his family pursued, Hasek set about making himself objectionable to them. He was editor of Animal World magazine, and he made up imaginary...
When the last U.S. military man has left Viet Nam, Camp Alpha will be turned over to the U.S. embassy. Its commander, Captain George Parrott of Taft, Calif., apparently will be that last man. He is perplexed about one final detail: "We haven't decided who will process my papers...
Shoring the Walls. Even the A.M.A. now recognizes health care as a right. But it is still unwilling to go along with Kennedy-Griffiths. Dr. Max Parrott, chairman of the A.M.A.'s board of trustees, describes Kennedy's bill as "rigid" and "monolithic." Parrott and many of his colleagues defend the existing system and seek to eliminate what they see as its most egregious inequity with their tax-credit bill. "Some people are denied health care because of their inability to pay for it," says Dr. Richard S. Wilbur, A.M.A. deputy vice president. "Medicredit will take care...