Word: winging
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...that has thoroughly unnerved Italians and turned the streets of many of their historic cities into battlefields. The death of three young neo-Fascists last week brought to 34 the number of politically motivated killings in Italy since January 1975. The total includes thirteen known or presumed extreme left-wing activists and seven neo-Fascists killed in clashes during demonstrations, in single assassinations and in raids on party offices. The others: five innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire of fierce street fighting, four police officers, two magistrates who were presiding over the trials of accused urban guerrillas, the president...
While the change in tone was not made for box-office reasons, it does serve to distinguish Harper's from its chief and more liberal rival, the Atlantic. Nonetheless, Harper's continues to print liberal and even left-wing authors. One of Lapham's convictions is that the U.S. system requires not only debate but also intellectual confrontation: "Democracy means that you and I must fight. Democracy means a kind of Darwinism for ideas." Though he wants to preserve "what is best in our traditions," he insists that he is not at all conservative "in the Republican...
Such concessions have cost Begin some support among right-wing Israelis. Last week one of his closest friends and aides, Shmuel Katz, resigned, fearing the negotiations were leading to a "sellout of Israel's basic interests." The outspoken and often abrasive Katz, who has been serving as Begin's information adviser, was also miffed because Begin had not supported him for a Cabinet appointment. Said he: "I no longer have a common language with the Prime Minister...
...appearance, wrote scribes of the era, was "cadaverous," and there was something so supernatural about 19th century Violin Virtuoso Nicolo Paganini "that one looked for a glimpse of a cloven hoof or an angel's wing." Onstage, the maestro would often contort his body into bizarre stances. His tours de force, like playing a pizzicato accompaniment with his left hand while bowing with his right, prompted audiences to whisper that Paganini was in league with the devil. But alas, he was merely mortal, according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The violinist, writes...
DIED. Paul Jacobs, 59, investigative reporter, left-wing political gadfly and author (Is Curly Jewish?, Prelude to Riot); of cancer; in San Francisco. A Trotskyite during the '30s, he worked for many years in the labor movement. In 1956 he became staff director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, a liberal think tank. One of the first reporters to warn of the dangers of radioactive fallout from U.S. nuclear testing, he later attributed his cancer to radioactive poisoning contracted while working on his articles...