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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During King Faisal's reign, Fahd appeared to favor life abroad ? particularly in France ? to the austerities of Riyadh. He damaged his prestige somewhat in 1974 by spending five months in Europe, even staying there during the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Faisal never scolded him but in public was often heard to ask, "Where is our brother Fahd?" Since Faisal's death in 1975, Fahd has had little time to go anywhere for personal pleasure...
...what is actually going on among the Cardinals; incredibly, the New York Times's bestseller list carries his book in the nonfiction category, where it ranks tenth this week. Truth to tell (so to speak), The Final Conclave is a farrago of fact, speculation, misinformation and fiction. In somewhat the same vein, Rader uses silly, intrusive episodes that feature F.D.R. speaking at a revival, and Aimee Semple McPherson blathering in her boudoir, and dots his hero's career with heavyhanded parallels to the life of Billy Graham...
...pawed our way through a crowd of 2000 somewhat originally dressed people. One couple wore matching sunglasses--indoors, and at night. An old man, obviously a seasoned fan, winked knowingly from underneath his 1932 straw fedora. Little kids ran about screaming and sticking cotton candy in each others' hair...
...when fleeing from Russia, he did not turn to the Promised Land but settled down in Poland, because the living conditions in Palestine at the time struck him as un-European, uncivilized and even somewhat Asiatic. Alas, the Poles and Lithuanians turned out to be almost as bad as the Bolsheviks. "Go to Palestine, you sickness of Europe," they told him. And so, he finally settled in Jerusalem, while his elder son went on lecturing on comparative literature at Vilna University, until the Nazis came and slaughtered him and his family. In Jerusalem Alexander Klausner went on writing his Russian...
...Painted Bird. Kaufman the avenger is also reminiscent of Kosinski's Cockpit and Blind Date. But there is a crucial difference. Kosinski's fiction is cold, clinical, beyond ideaology or feeling. In the Eighth Sin, vengeance is passionate, even humane. Though the book's structure is somewhat programmatic. Kaufer, a senior editor of time, has given the familiar documentary evidence of the death camps and their aftermath a persuasive and moving life in fiction...