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...people, whose culture produced Genesis. Apart from its value as literature, Genesis has no meaning for the rest of us. As long as we keep giving this mythology a divine image, it will be impossible for modern man to transcend the dark ages we still carry in our minds. RAFAEL A. MIRABAL Caguas, Puerto Rico...
Respondents included Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah, Boston Police Commissioner Paul F. Evans, Christopher Lydon, host of "The Connection" on WBUR-FM, Margarita Muniz, principal of the Rafael Hernandez School, Dr. Gloria White-Hammond, co-pastor of Bethel A.M.E. Church and pediatrician, O'Brien and moderator Martha Minow, professor at Harvard Law School...
...DIED. RAFAEL KUBELIK, 82, Bohemian-born maestro; in Lucerne, Switzerland. Son of renowned violinist Jan Kubelik, he became, at 27, chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague. Seeking artistic freedom, he left Czechoslovakia when it went communist in 1948. Over the years he led the Chicago Symphony and Munich's Bavarian Radio Symphony...
...period of nearly 15 years, a prominent psychiatrist treats a young neurotic named Gene Kenny. After much painstaking analysis, Dr. Rafael Neruda sees what he believes to be a triumph of his therapeutic skills: Gene is no longer a passive wimp but rather a rising computer whiz with a wife, a son and--somewhat to the shrink's discomfort--a beautiful mistress. After their last session, Neruda notes, "I have to admit a surge of vanity: I was proud of what I had wrought." A bit later he hears from his former patient, "You cured...
This eerie moment forms the emotional and intellectual hinge of Rafael Yglesias' eighth novel, Dr. Neruda's Cure for Evil (Warner Books; 694 pages; $24.95). Unfortunately, it occurs 465 pages into the narrative, well past the halfway mark but nowhere near the end of a long, long reading haul. Psychoanalysis, the so-called talking cure, has rarely, if ever, received a talkier fictional presentation...