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SANCTUARY V by Budd Schulberg. 415 pages. World...
...root of Moreno's undoing. Even as he seeks to flee the country, he still finds himself defending the fundamental principles of Bello and his Green Revolution. As a former Communist Party member who did his time on the rack before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Schulberg is well-equipped to blueprint the attitudes and agonies of a man who once had high hopes for revolutionary reform. But his reach embarrassingly exceeds his grasp in dealing with Moreno's inner conflicts. What the book lacks is not philosophy or knowledge but a cohesive narrative skill. The phenomenal...
...first full-length novel since 1955, Budd Schulberg makes a bold attempt to invade the thoughts of an aging revolutionary. Justo Moreno Suaárez is the provisional President of a nation's revolutionary government. A former professor of political science, Moreno was a helpful hand in toppling the corrupt regime of President Zamora and aided the rise to power of Angel Bello, the people's hero. Bello rewards Moreno by making him a puppet president, whose essential task is to lend the revolution a respectable imprimatur...
...Schulberg's title, Sanctuary V, refers to an article of the Pan American convention governing diplomatic asylum. And Schulberg is at his best in depicting the grinding banality of asylum where defeat and depravity exist on innumerable levels...
...Time Buck White--Joseph Tuotti's play, which grew out of the Budd Schulberg Watts project, is about an organization called B.A.D. (Black Alleluia Days) and a handful of its members. The doings of these members--who embrace black culture while simultaneously trying to get a grip on the monetary aspects of white culture -- while setting up for a meeting are howlingly funny and true. When the title character, their leader, arrives to answer race-oriented questions, things get a little stagey. The production, which is graced by what may be the best cast in New York, closes Sunday...