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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most sharply into fiction is a budding romance between the Soviet colonel and a beautiful woman agent in an Israeli intelligence ring he has infiltrated. "I have been told that the Israeli girl is so well described that I must have had such a relationship myself," says Giovannetti. "Not true. Some of the people are real, with names changed, some are half real, but the girl is one of the inventions." Nevertheless he does note that spy and priest, ironically, have something in common in their abstinence and discipline. "Panin could dream what Righi could not," says the author...
Despite such gradual accommodations, Mormonism will never blend easily into the religious landscape. Ever since Jesus appeared to Smith to denounce other Christian creeds as "an abomination," the Mormons have considered themselves the one true "restored" church. While standard-brand Christianity insists that God is a spirit. Mormons believe that he inhabits a body of flesh and bone. In fact the Mormon God was once a man himself, and Mormon men can hope to become gods themselves in the afterlife. The Mormons reject such orthodox doctrines as the Trinity and original sin. In their complex eschatology, Jesus will return...
...never shake the image. At 43, Francoise Sagan is still, in the minds of many, the enfant terrible of French letters whose precocious first novel, Bonjour Tristesse (1954), was so successful that it enabled her to adopt a reckless life-style of expensive fast cars, gambling and good whisky. True, true. But Sagan has also found time to spin off twelve more novels and nine plays. Her latest dramatic effort, scheduled for a Paris opening in the autumn, is called It's Nice Day and Night and is laced with familiar themes: an adulterous affair, alienation, the triumph...
...have a point. Though the court last week upheld Nannen, it took the unusual step of expressing "regret" that the complaint had to be rejected and encouraged the feminists to "work toward a true" portrayal of women. The losing plaintiffs could also take heart from a comment in the Stuttgarter Zeitung that the decision was a "boxing on the ears [for]all those?especially men?who have shoved women into a dubious corner and defamed them...
...Matthiessen make the trip? "To say I was interested in blue sheep or snow leopards, or even in remote lamaseries, was no answer," he writes. "To say I was making a pilgrimage seemed fatuous and vague, though in some sense, that was true as well . . . I only knew that I was drawn toward the snow mountains, in search of a secret that, like the yeti, might well be missed for the very fact of searching...