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AGAINST ALL HOPE, Armando Valladares A BOOK OF TRAVELLERS' TALES, assembled by Eric Newby CECIL BEATON, Hugo Vickers HOME, Witold Rybczynski KRAZY KAT, Patrick McDonnell WARTIME WRITINGS: 1939-1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupery...
...Because this group is taking part in the fight outside France and constitutes a normal 'foreign legion,' it claims the reward of ruling the France of tomorrow. It's absurd. The essential characteristic of sacrifice is that it claims no rights." In his politics as well as his piloting, Saint-Exupery proved an inveterate soloist...
...Saint-Exupery was an odd mixture: public figure and recluse, mystic and skeptic, fighter and dreamer. He abandoned the Roman Catholicism of his childhood but not his religious yearnings. "It's strange that I can't believe, that I don't have faith. One loves God without hope: That would be ^ something that would suit me -- the monastery of Solesmes and Gregorian chant." He referred often to the monastic life, and seems to have thought seriously about taking up such an existence after the war. He did not get the chance. But his ad- mirers, knowing that the issues...
...radically as Nothing in Common does. Start with David Basner (Tom Hanks), prince of the yuppies, a man whose smooth rise in an ad agency is not allowed to interfere with his commitment to the uncommitted singles life. Then watch as his aged parents (Jackie Gleason and Eva Marie Saint) separate. The father loses his job and health just as the son is about to land a prize account. Now David must face the last, most painful transition that children have to make with their parents: role reversal. As they enter second childhood, he must become the responsible adult...
Lewis, balding and intense, is a thick-tongued speaker. But he is widely revered as a living saint, a man of courage and commitment who was always on the front lines. During the movement, he was arrested 40 times and beaten often. As an Atlanta councilman, he has set himself up as an unyielding moralist. "In some quarters they think I'm too honest, too open to be effective," he admits with pride...