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Adapting his own 1963 autobiographical novel about growing up as a black boy in the Kansas of the 1920s, Parks recollects the characters of his childhood as the sort of stereotypes that usually appear in elementary-school brotherhood pageants. Dad (Felix P. Nelson) is slow-witted, humble and loving and Mom (Estelle Evans) is a gentle, worldly-wise philosopher who works as a domestic. Newt (Kyle Johnson) is about as likely an adolescent hero as Andy Hardy, waking Mom up in the middle of the night and listening wide-eyed as she dispenses such homespun homilies as "This town...
Conflicting Character. Like many other artists whose lives and works were obliterated during Stalin's purges, Babel was guilty not of disloyalty to the Revolution but of not being demonstrably loyal enough. Apparently, Stalin expected much of this stocky, near sighted Jew, who in the 1920s had become an overnight literary hero with Red Cavalry, a collection of vignettes in which Babel fictionalized his experiences as a correspondent riding with the Red Cossacks against the Poles who repulsed the Bolshevik attempt to Communize their homeland. But instead of falling into the assembly line of Social Realism, Babel fell into...
...vision more than a century ago. When Western man finally launched himself into space, he foresaw, it would be from Florida's midsection. Men with less foresight saw only a forbidding stretch of sand, scrub and fetid marshland that was bypassed even during the land boom of the 1920s. In the 1950s, recalls Space Reporter Al Volker of the Miami News, the space program was so hushed up that the only way to find out that a shot had taken place was to have a Cocoa Beach bartender telephone the news. But in the 1960s the time had come...
...started last year by Orthodox Rabbi Meir Kahane, 36, a former lawyer who helps edit an emotional weekly devoted to Jewish affairs and who ministers to the congregation of the Rochdale Village Traditional Synagogue in the New York City borough of Queens. "We see here the beginnings of the 1920s in prewar Germany," warns Kahane. "This is a question of Jewish survival-nothing else." The newspaper ad, which Kahane wrote, declares: "Maybe some people and organizations are too nice. Maybe-just maybe -nice people build their own road to Auschwitz...
...anything." Anything, that is, except dance. Prince Rainier and Princess Grace had invited Balanchine's New York City Ballet to Monaco for a week-long festival commemorating the 40th anniversary of the death of Sergei Diaghilev, whose famed Ballets Russes Balanchine choreographed in the 1920s. And for "Mr. B.," whose embroidered cowboy shirts were as outstanding as his interpretations of Stravinsky, returning to Monte Carlo's wildly baroque, red and gold opera theater was a special pleasure. "My whole life was there," he said. "It's not that I return. I am here always...