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In exchange for the $1,000,000 a day he gets from the Red bloc, Fidel Castro barters away Cuba's lifeblood -its sugar crop. That blood is beginning to get thin. Partly because of Hurricane Flora and partly because of pitiful mismanagement, Cuban sugar production this year is...
A Touch of the Dog. "What will die with me when I die, what pitiful or perishable form will the world lose?" Borges wonders, recalling childhood friends and memories. "The voice of Macedonio Fernández? The image of a roan horse on the vacant lot at Serrano and Charcas...
In West Bengal, on the Indian side of the border, trains from East Pakistan these days bring pitiful loads of Hindu refugees clutching all their worldly goods in a few thin knapsacks. On the Pakistani side, exhausted, tattered Moslems from India trudge endlessly toward a refugee camp in Jessore.
Prisons, scoffed Havemann, are "the university of crime," and the death penalty (abolished in West Germany) "is upheld only so that people can kill their political opponents." He laughed off the party's "pitiful" distortion of Hegel's dictum that freedom is the acceptance of necessity. Said Havemann...
"No, It Ain't." Abandoned here, Beckett's book would have been a maddening parody of all human effort to pose the existence of God, either from man's need or from the ordered complexity of the universe. But the author presses on to a familiar clench...