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Paul Selver translated The Good Soldier Schweik into English in 1930, and it won a lot of admirers in that form--the New York Times, for instance, used to periodically announce that the Czech national character as portrayed by Hasek made the victory of the Czech revolution over its bureaucratic...
She was followed on the recording by a man calling himself General Field Marshal Cinque (which he pronounced sin-cue). He said that Hearst, editor of the San Francisco Examiner and executive-committee chairman of the news-paper-and-magazine chain founded by his father, was "the corporate chairman of...
Teaching that raw talent to cohere into N.C.A.A. champions is John Wooden's contribution. Since coming to U.C.L.A. 25 years ago, Wooden has won 584 games and lost but 141. Though the straitlaced deacon of the Christian Church looks hopelessly out of sync with today's loose and...
The first was the November murder of Marcus Foster, the black superintendent of Oakland's public schools. After Foster was gunned down in a darkened parking lot, the S.L.A. issued "Communique No. 1," taking credit for the gangland-style execution. The S.L.A. said that Foster had "been found guilty...
Moscow responded by insisting that the Russian officials and their wives were innocent victims of "a carefully planned hostile act against the Soviet Union." The Soviets charged that the first secretary, V.I. Marchenko, his wife, and the third secretary's wife had been seized while driving home from a...