Word: compatriots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Burger's Daughter centers on Rosa's struggle with the demands of her father's legacy. Lionel Burger was a Communist revered for his devotion to the revolutionary cause and his humanity to all races. After he dies in prison, Rosa is expected by both her father's compatriot and by the South Africa police--who have kept her under surveillance since childhood--to carry on his work. Yet Rosa stays aloof from the underground, flinching at his friends' silent demands, stupefying the police and shaming herself...
Cortazar has long been in the vanguard of contemporary Latin American authors who employ surrealist and experimental techniques. With his emphasis on fantasy and indigenous mythology, and his use of innovations in novelistic form, he attempts to assert his intellectual independence from Western literary traditions. Like his Argentine compatriot, Jorge Borges, Cortazar portrays a reality in which past, present and future exist simultaneously; a world where his characters are trapped in the labyrinth of modern society. Cortazar's two best-known works, the short story "Blow Up" (on which director Antonioni based his film) and the novel Hopscotch, exemplify...
...Army will do other terrorists' dirty work-if the price is right. The participation of the Japanese in such incidents as the 1972 attack at Tel Aviv's Lod Airport and the 1974 takeover of the French embassy in The Hague in order to free a compatriot from prison points to an alarming central fact about contemporary terrorism: the growing links of these organizations. A number of West German radicals, for example, got their combat training at Palestinian-run camps in Lebanon and Southern Yemen. Libya, which seems willing to bankroll revolutionaries all over the world, has supplied...
...impressive a runner as John Treacy is, it is his compatriot who seems to be the real Providence fireball. For most of his young life, Gerry Degan has been busy racking up every title in sight in his home country. At 16 he was third in the junior division of the Irish Championships and two years later he was number one. Degan continued his winning ways by taking first place in the senior division at 21. He then took his talents abroad to the World Championships, held last March in Dusseldorf, Germany, where he placed 21st...
...Compatriot--it sounded so musical yet so forlorn. I shrink from recalling that greeting because it hangs in my memory like a portent of betrayal. I hope it really meant that hope is possible. Already the man had culled suspicion in a stolidly bourgeois farming couple as he pressed for workers' movements, and in a spurt of desperation and elation, invoked Che Guevara's name. I guess he'll learn...