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Requests from university organizations are not uncommon. Loporchio said March 22nd will be Lambda Chi Alpha Day to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Boston University's fraternity...
...however, a whole new generation of Soviet exiles is making a happy transition to literary life in the West. Many of the 50 or so writers who emigrated from the U.S.S.R. in the 1970s are turning out works of originality and uncommon interest. Among the Russian books currently reaching U.S. bookshops in English translation, some were novels banned by Soviet censorship. Others were written or completed abroad, in a surge of fresh vitality...
...author seems to be asking: "Shall the meek inherit the earth?" Like any other profound allegory, Life and Times of Michael K leaves the question it poses unanswered. But the warning it sounds of Armageddon resonates with uncommon power...
Never before in history had a medical development been big, instantaneous news over a large part of the world. Ironically, poliomyelitis has always been a relatively uncommon disease with a comparatively low death rate.** Polio is actually less of a public-health problem than rheumatic fever and some forms of cancer which single out the young. But, largely because of its long-term crippling effects, no disease except cancer has been so widely feared in the last three decades. With polio's dramatic defeat, as the Detroit Free Press wrote, "The prayers and hopes of millions . . . in all parts...
...need to kill. As he proved in Alligator, Director Lewis Teague is a sly and stylish merchant of fear; as she proved in The Howling, Wallace knows how to play a scared lady; and as he proves on the spot, little Danny Pintauro is an actor of uncommon appeal...