Word: romanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WHAT? is Roman Polanski's shot at a scatterbrained, spur-of-the-moment comedy, a little like John Huston's Beat the Devil. A girl (Sydne Rome) stumbles into an Italian villa barely clothed and near collapse. Like Playboy's Little Annie Fanny, whom she resembles, the girl is promptly set upon by the entire household, which includes psychotics, perverts, lechers, gnomes, dikes and an assortment of servants who make it their business not to notice anything...
...choice seems odd. As a beautiful woman, an aristocrat, a romantic and a Roman Catholic, Mary was a congenial subject for the author, who is all those things herself. Cromwell was certainly not beautiful, had no record of romantic interest, and was a scourge of Catholics and a regicide. Why Cromwell? Says Fraser: "I guess I wanted to prove I was more than just a pretty brain." There is no doubt she proves it. Her Cromwell is vast and conscientious. She has read every biography, pored through every broadside of the times, considered every malicious rumor, and records them...
...Died. Gabriel Marcel, 83, French dramatist, critic, musician and philosopher; of a heart attack; in Paris. A Roman Catholic and a pioneering existentialist who preferred the designation "Neo-Socratic," Marcel rejected abstract thinking as a solution to man's moral problems. Instead, he struggled to define a concrete philosophy that would help man find, in the sense of his own being and in his unselfish love of others, an approach to God. Marcel's best-known books were Metaphysical Journal (1927), Being and Having (1935) and The Mystery of Being (1951). -Died. Ludwig von Mises, 92, Austrian-born...
Anthony Powell's roman fleuve, A Dance to the Music of Time, is turning into a dance of death. With this eleventh of a projected twelve volumes, the series-chronicling the ebbs and flaws of English upper-class life since the first World War-is nearly played out. Already the narrative extends across 40 years to about 1958, outdistancing many of the lives it recounts. Powell's narrator and alter ego, Nicholas Jenkins, is now in his 50s, an age that, he ruefully notes, confirms one's "worst suspicions about life...
...years it has been the preoccupation of French novelists of the nouveau roman-Alain Robbe-Grillet, Mark Saporta, et al.73151;to build their fictions exclusively from facts, objects, appearances, surfaces and the impressions of the moment. Even when the method works, the result is long-winded; but it can have the illusionist beauty of pointillism that only makes sense as the onlooker steps back...