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Will Moses reach the Promised Land? Will Dante get across the Styx? The Bible and The Divine Comedy are not generally thought of as cliff hangers, but that is just what they have become to millions of Italians. Each week readers rush to the newsstands-which also prominently display dozens of girlie publications-to buy magazine-like booklets that contain installments from a classic or an encyclopedia. The idea of dispensing culture in weekly dollops has brought a fortune to the three Milanese publishers who conceived...
...Stalin's day, for all his buffoonery, Terkin ultimately had to symbolize "the ideal Soviet soldier"; in his latest adventure, he is a cockily irreverent figure who gets killed in battle and goes to a "nether world" that turns out to be a sort of Stalinsville on the Styx...
Regine Crespin has an amazing voice. She recently pleased New York critics as the Marschallin in the Lotte Lehmann-directed Rosenkavalier at the Met, but New York has not yet heard anything like her "Divinites du Styx," which nearly knocked me out of my seat Thursday night...
...Styx crossed by a long pontoon of lies...
Lament for a City, by Henry Beetle Hough. An unsentimental novel by an aging New England editor, demonstrating that the soul of a town is its newspaper, and that both can be sold down the Styx...