Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resumption of the drumhead justice that earlier put to death 551 Cubans accused as supporters of ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Now the blood purge would be aimed at defectors in the band of barbudos (bearded ones) who lifted him to power, of whom hundreds are now in prison...
...were two young idealists, helpers in Fidel Castro's drive to power in Cuba, willing to risk prison and death to fight their old comrade-at-arms? See THE HEMISPHERE, No Time for Tourists...
...Running. In London, Accountant Francis George Swain, 46, got a two-year prison stretch for embezzling about $8,400 in animal-welfare funds from the Blue Cross-Our Dumb Friends League, got no leniency for having shot the wad betting on such dumb friends as greyhounds and race horses...
...language novels to be translated into English (by his 25-year-old son Dmitri), Invitation to a Beheading will offer innumerable meanings to readers-or no meaning at all. But the 20th century being what it is, the political interpretation comes first to mind. No period is stated; the prisoner's name carries echoes of Roman civic virtue, the jailers' names are Russian, and the executioner is known (in an echo of the French Revolution?) as M'sieur Pierre. The prison itself is timeless, universal, born of an idea turned into phantasm. Its antic rules ("the management...
Gradually the prison assumes the aspect of the world-a world in conspiracy to mock the prisoner's hopes and humble his humanity. The prison director's daughter, a kind of pre-Lolita of coquettish innocence, promises to lead him to freedom but never does; the jailers themselves stage an elaborate comedy only to laugh at his false hopes for escape. His past life emerges as a base and saddening farce-his bastard birth, his sluttish wife, his crippled, oafish children who are not really his. And always there is the maddening Alice-in-Wonderland logic by which...