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...embassy in Kabul comes an urgent State Department order to locate Ellen Jaspar, a Bryn Mawr junior who has run off and married an Afghan engineer named Nazrullah. Thirteen months have passed since Ellen had last written her parents back home in Dorset, Pa. The task of finding the missing girl falls to Mark Miller, a junior embassy officer fluent in Pashto, the native language...
What Rabb cannot be forgiven is his periodic snipping of the text and his wholesale excision of the Prologue scene. The resulting running-time is barely more than two hours--far below maximum tolerance. The fact that Shaw wrote an alternative Prologue-sermon thirteen years later does not vitiate the importance of the original Prologue...
...Malaise, replete with an enticing picture of author Dacia Maraini on the dust jacket, comes highly recommended. Written by an Italian girl in her mid-twenties, this novel of the "young, postwar generation" won the second annual $10,000 Formentor Prize, an award established by thirteen publishers in as many countries to encourage and publicize young writing. Each of the thirteen houses, including Grove Press of the United States, will publish Miss Maraini's work in its own country...
Included in the program is work with 100 boys from the Lyman School for Boys. The boys have either fulfilled their sentences or have been voluntarily placed in the School by their parents. These "placement cases," between the ages of eight to thirteen, are "over-disciplined" by the rigorous training given them at the School, Clifton said...
Among Mississippi Negroes, the anger over Evers' murder coiled like a snake. Thirteen ministers began a silent walk, one by one, at widely spaced intervals toward city hall. To Jackson's cops, this was just another protest march-and up came the paddy wagons to haul the marchers off. Next day, the cops rushed a group standing on a porch, clubbed some Negroes, grabbed a white man, throttled him with a billy club, kicked and beat him till blood gushed from his wounds. A day later, Negro youngsters again moved down the street in ones and twos, carrying...