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DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine. This scabrous recollection of a wretched Parisian childhood, first published in 1936, has become the schoolbook of black humorists from Genet to Bruce Jay Friedman. The new, unexpurgated translation is by Ralph Manheim. RAKOSSY, by Cecelia Holland. A wild fictional ride through 16th century Hungary in which Magyar does in Magyar until the Turkish invaders put a temporary end to it all at the battle of Mohacs...
DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine. This scabrous recollection of a wretched Parisian childhood, first published in 1936, has become the schoolbook of black humorists from Genet to Bruce Jay Friedman. The new, unexpurgated translation is by Ralph Manheim...
They surrounded the schoolbook warehouse. Dozens of them poured inside with shotguns and began a room-to-room search. And near the fifth-floor landing, half-hidden behind crates of textbooks, they found an Italian-made kind of 6.5-mm. rifle fitted with a fourpower telescopic sight. One flight above, near a sixth-floor window only 75 yds. from the point where Kennedy and Connally were shot, they discovered remnants of a chicken dinner in a bag, an empty pop bottle, and three spent cartridge cases. The assassin was gone...
...good neighbors. We will be partners in building a better life for our peoples." Jacqueline Kennedy also made a speech, but she needed no interpreter. "No fathers or mothers can be happy until they have the possibility of jobs and education for their children," she told the campesinos in schoolbook Spanish. "This must be for all and not just for a fortunate few." The peasants gave her the day's loudest cheers...
...many, he did not seem an auspicious choice. Despite his love of France and his connection with Chateau Haut-Brion, Dillon spoke schoolbook French. He also seemed too young (43) and inexperienced to handle a post made all the more touchy by the growing troubles of France's Fourth Republic...