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Djilas depicts everyday life on both sides: slender Turkish girls enveloped in soft shadows and sly glances, the insistent murmur of garden streams in the background: hearty Serbs bathed in the rich sunlight that pours copiously on gleaming mountains. But the book's cumulative power lies in appalling battle details. Heads sail briskly from necks and are hoisted on pikes. A Montenegrin grabs a Turk's horse and tries frantically to kick a severed leg out of the stirrup. During a lunch break between bashing feet and smashing kidneys, an unforgettable father-son torture team laments the passing...
...factions can and do compete to produce the cleverest and most convincing interpretation of national events. Last week a new comic hit the stands. On the cover was Miss Liberty in all her Grecian-gowned glory, about to be done in by sinister men armed with rifles and long Turkish knives. Were those the Russian and North Korean flags over their heads? They most certainly were. This unabashedly patriotic comic, the handiwork of a wealthy, middle-aged illustrator named José G. Cruz, spins out in cartoons, photographs and cryptic dialogue what many Mexicans are talking about these days...
...part Arab and part English, and only a superman would be able to bridge that cultural gap. Lawrence, with a fear of bloodshed which does not control his erratic sadism, and a masochism which is brought to the surface when he is tortured at the hands of a homosexual Turkish Boy at Deraa, is not the one to fulfill his dreams. When he finally frees Damascus, he and the Arab tribes fail to establish an effective governing federation. Longing for the life of the ordinary, he returns to England...
...mutilated was an addition to Lawrence's second interview with General Allenby, when, upon begging permission to leave the desert, Lawrence is persuaded by his commanding officer that he is an "extraordinary" man-which explains Lawrence's subsequent hysterical tone during the drive to Damascus and the massacre of Turkish troops at Tafas. The second scene, set in a Turkish hospital in Damascus, displayed Lawrence's sense of his own wrong-doing, and of pacifist and democratic leanings now obscured by the current print's false emphasis on neurosis...
...kidnapers' intention had been to embarrass their government, they could count the operation a spectacular success. But if their chief object had been to collect the $400,000 ransom that they had demanded, the crime clearly had not paid. At no point was there any inclination by Turkish or U.S. authorities to hand over the money. Their attitude reflects a growing determination to discourage future kidnapings rather than protect unfortunate captives...