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While Schiller's original text favors the romantic Scottish queen and casts Elizabeth as the villain, Stephen Spender's verse translation depicts both monarchs as victims of historical circumstance. If Elizabeth's decree obliges Mary to mount the scaffold, the Stuart queen has at least the consolation of dying surrounded by admirers and absolved from sin. Elizabeth, on the other hand, in her zeal to save appearances is finally condemned by them, retaining her crown only at the cost of losing the friendship and popular support that gave it meaning...
...Many workers complain that their families are being shunned or ridiculed because they work for Marubeni. One employee said that his child was nicknamed "Lockheed" by his schoolmates; another complained that his son's teacher displayed a picture of a Marubeni executive in the classroom, labeling it "dangerous villain." Some wives of Marubeni workers have taken to shopping at night to avoid the cold stares of neighbors. Perhaps most insulting of all, Tokyo's Crown Record Company is trying to profit from Marubeni's misfortune. Next month it will release a pop-rock single that parodies...
Your reviewer charges me with bad taste in using Dr. Josef Mengele, late of Auschwitz, as the villain of my novel The Boys from Brazil [Feb. 23]. I must concede that what I have done is almost on a par with putting a would-be assassin on the cover of a national magazine or publishing a list of a dead President's rumored mistresses...
...sympathies lie--and if these associations alone don't sketch out an ideology, the action of the novel certainly does. Alex Vandervoort, the hero, is liberal; he lives with an intelligent woman lawyer, tries to have the bank help people in the ghetto, and is scrupulously honest. The villain, Roscoe Heyward, fluctuates wildly between extremes; he is either snooty or obsequious, asexual or consumed by satyriasis, teetotaling or drunk. He is basically conservative, and in favor of directing the bank more toward high finance and less toward small depositers, but he is also obsessively ambitious (something Alex...
...different from what it once had been. "He said he hadn't wanted to be associated with Agnew." Why he chose Jason Scott Cord still remains a mystery. Pavlovich told a friend after his arrest that if the newspapers thought the name had come from Jonas Scott Cord, a villain in Harold Robbins The Carpetbaggers, "that was fine," but untrue. No matter what the name, however--nobody suspected...