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Jong writes the book with three different names. Caryl Fleishmann-Stanger writes the forward. Isadora Wing, the heroine of Jong's most famous novel Fear of Flying, writes the story itself and is given to recording, in the middle of narrative text, arbitrary conversations with Leila Sand, the novel's protagonist...
Five yards to Gilmore's right, behind a green line, were 20 people; four were the convict's invited guests: his uncle Vern Damico; his two lawyers, Robert Moody and Ronald Stanger; and Lawrence Schiller, a West Coast promoter who owns the rights to Gilmore's story. Warden Sam Smith invited them to say farewell, and then read to him the court's sentence of death for the murder of a young motel manager. Gilmore peered around the cold, harshly lit room, stared at the warden for a moment and finally said...
Only twice does this contrast come through--a scene in a local tavern where everyone gets good-and-old-fashioned drunk, and then Faustus tries to show off his black arts. Suddenly the division is there--everyone watches Faustus uneasily. He is a stanger; he is not one of them; he is damned...
Died. Albert John Luthuli, 69, Africa's first native Nobel laureate (for peace, in 1960), and one of its most articulate champions of racial equality; of head injuries when he was struck by a train; near Stanger, South Africa. A teacher at Natal's all-black Adams College, Luthuli first rose to world notice in 1952 by helping to organize a defiant but nonviolent campaign against South Africa's hated apartheid, to which the government reacted by stripping him of his Zulu tribal chieftainship, and finally, in 1959, virtually banishing him to his isolated farm, where...
...before the five-year ban was up, two Special Branch detectives caught up with Luthuli in a shop near his farm and handed him a notice. It banished Luthuli for another five years, this time under even more rigid conditions; henceforth he may not even go into Stanger or attend services in the local Congregational Church for fear he would incite other blacks to riot...