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...eyed man with the droopy mustache returned to Paris' fashionable Hôtel Résidence Saint-Honoré at 7:30 on a Friday evening. When he walked in, the men waiting for him identified themselves as agents of the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST), the French counterintelligence agency. They asked him to come to headquarters for a routine identity check. He did so without protest. Four days later the suspect was released-thereby touching off one of the most explosive international brouhahas in years. The affair triggered political repercussions from the Quai d'Orsay...
...play is based upon the Gospel According to Saint Matthew; the song titles indicate the progression of the story. First Jesus makes his presence known (There's a Stranger in Town). He is swiftly ostracized (We Are the Priests and Elders and Just a Little Bit of Jesus Goes a Long Way). Betrayal follows (Judas Dance), then the Crucifixion (See How They Done My Lord) and the Resurrection (Can't No Grave Hold My Body Down). The company erupts in Choreographer Talley Beatty's dance explosion of joy. This is much like the New Orleans ritual...
...political and spiritual crisis of her time into a point of devouring intensity. She shattered at the age of 34 attempting that most difficult of 20th century feats-living in the service of an absentee God. For her sufferings and self-denials, Weil has been canonized as a secular saint by contemporary intellectuals. This biography, by her friend and academic colleague Simone Pétrement, should ward off potential devil's advocates. It reveals Weil not only as a unique intellect whose thought spanned thousands of years and many cultures but also as a child of her time...
...sixth novel Read has traveled abroad and into history for a theme, attempting to write what could be thought of as his Brothers Karamazov, Polish-style. Stefan Kornowski−saint, sinner, intellectual−is Alyosha-Dmitri-Ivan all in one. The son of a ruined count, he moves into a shabby Warsaw apartment when the family country home is lost in the late 1920s. But while his sister, 17, goes to work in a jeweler's shop, Stefan, 15, manages the ultimate Dostoyevskian luxury: "Playing the role of the sort of person he ought to be." He dabbles...
James Eggleston, 25, a Saint Louis...