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...Brigades' reputed mastermind, Enrico Fenzi, 43, a onetime professor of Italian literature at the University of Genoa who was arrested in Milan last year. Wrote Fenzi: "In ten long bloody years, the armed struggle has demonstrated its inability to construct any political program whatever. The Red Brigades chapter is tragically closed...
...National Organization for Women (NOW) began the "missionary" effort in a direct response to Morman opposition to the amendment in Utah. Janet Ferare, vice president for public relations of the Cambridge NOW chapter, said yesterday...
...chapter's conclusion has the weight and shape of Waugh, the critic of modernism and the Age of the Common Man: "He was aware of a new voice in his inner counsels... a voice, as it were, from a more civilized age as from the chimney corner in mid-Victorian times there used to break sometimes the sardonic laughter of grandmama, relic of Regency, a clear, outrageous, entirely self-assured disturber among the high and muddled thought of her whiskered descendants...
...Research Librarian Ellen Dunlap notes that the unbound folio of Schooldays bears the novelist's signature and the date Oct. 13, 1945. It is reasonable to assume that Waugh, flushed with Brideshead"s critical and popular success, decided to give a primed public more about Charles Ryder. Chapter 1 bears one piece of sad news: his mother was killed by German shellfire in the Balkans while on some unspecified patriotic mission. His father is already the cold fish of Brideshead. Says he, after refusing to attend his wife's memorial service: "She had no business...
...wife are the only survivors of families that numbered 89 before the Holocaust-his still raw emotions are understandable. "Believe me," he warns, "it could happen again." It is all too easy for him to recollect Hitler's view of the Final Solution: "This is a chapter of our history that has never been written and never is to be written." Genocide is an expensive attempt to give the lie to the Fuhrer, to write and rewrite that chapter, recalling everything and forgiving nothing. But in this film, memory and ambition ultimately collide. The 6 million deserve more than...