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...many of Sweden's 700,000 to 800,000 immigrants-now 10% of the population -have resisted attempts to sprinkle them among the population. When Assyrian "ghettos" began to form last year, the government tried to break them up, but the clannish refugees simply moved back together. David Schwarz, a Polish-born naturalized Swede who edits the Journal of Immigrants and Minorities calculates that if the immigrants keep arriving at the current rate of about 20,000 a year, nearly a third of all Swedes will be of foreign descent by the year 2000. Warns Schwarz: "The big problem...
...Proxima Centauri, as it was about four years ago; and some of the farther galaxies as they looked billions of years ago. Peering into the heavens then is like looking back into time, and some of the stars that astronomers see may no longer exist. Truly, as André Schwarz-Bart wrote in The Last of the Just: "Our eyes register the light of dead stars...
That fact has already been confirmed at Washington's Woodward & Lothrop department store, where a test lot of 3,000 sets (price: $9 each) quickly sold out, and at Manhattan's F.A.O. Schwarz, where Othello is the No. 1 seller in the game department. Othello fans at 50 colleges are already signing up for the Eastern Regional Othello Tournament scheduled for February, and addicts at Caltech and M.I.T. will face off against each other in a match this week...
...Dragon. Yevgeny Schwarz's allegory about dictatorship in the Soviet Union in 1943. A nice fairy tale, with a happy ending. Worth seeing, but don't plan to do anything afterwards--it's three hours long. At Currier House May 6-8 at 8 p.m. Tickets $1.75 at Holyoke Center...
...simplicity gives Schwarz's play its charm; but a simplistic world peopled by heroes and heroines is flawed as a political statement. We are given a happy marriage at the end, but we never see the townspeople transformed. And saying "now let's have the wedding after all, because happiness makes people beautiful," sounds unconvincing. By choosing the allegory, Schwarz has eliminated the possibility of offering his audience a convincing ending. He leaves us still waiting for a solution to problems in the real world, where there are very few Lancelots to show the way to happiness...