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...Unfortunately, you feel out of place here unless you're proficient in a foreign language, and I don't mean a better than 560 score on your achievement test. Why just the other day a guy next to me dozed off and five minutes later he was talking Serbo-Croatian in his sleep...
...Bobby Fischer is an American primitive. He has no home. He lives out of two enormous plastic suitcases and a couple of shopping bags crammed with transistor radios and chess periodicals in eight languages (English, Russian, Dutch, Italian, German, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, French). The radios are for digging the latest Motown sounds. The literature is for those little off moments. Like the time after his victory over Larsen in Denver, when some chess buffs dragged the two players off to a nightclub featuring operatic singing. While the performers trilled and boomed, Fischer sat buried in a chess book, oblivious...
...Israeli armed forces may hardly notice the change. Friends since childhood days in Yugoslavia, Bar-Lev and Elazar confounded the Egyptians during the 1948 war by talking over their field radios in Serbo-Croatian. Bar-Lev, a tank man, refined the Israeli army's blitzkrieg tactics as chief of the armored corps between 1957 and 1961. That task was continued by his successor in the post, Elazar, who later led the attack on the Golan Heights during...
...week. "In the past three weeks," she says, "we've sold 1,000. We had to hire another apprentice." Many of those who buy the little cakes (at 12? apiece) are foreigners, for Proust's masterwork has been translated into 17 languages, including Finnish, Japanese and Serbo-Croatian. Mme. Benoist remarks: "If this keeps up, I'll have to learn English, German, Italian, and whatever it is that the Japanese and Chinese both speak...
ATELJE 212, the experimental studio company of Belgrade, is the second troupe in the Lincoln Center Festival. Under the direction of Mira Trailovic, the Yugoslavs will present four plays in Serbo-Croatian, with earphones providing instant English translation. Aleksandar Popovic's Bora, the Tailor, Alfred Jarry's King Vbu, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Roger Vitrac's Victor or the Children Take Over will run in repertory in the Forum Theater through July...