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Partly because of his obsession with privacy-he refuses to reveal his first name, rarely gives interviews, shuns Parisian literary circles-Cioran is hardly better known in Europe than in the U.S. Yet there are impressive testimonials to his significance. Critic Susan Sontag, in her introduction to The Temptation to...
For a while he had one pledged delegate, 666 short of the total he would need to win the Republican presidential nomination. Then he released the one he had. His national campaign staff numbers seven. After Robert Kennedy's murder, he was assigned a few Secret Service guards, which...
Possibly because of his own size (6 ft. 4 in., 212 Ibs.), Continental Airlines President Robert Forman Six has an obsession about the company that he has headed for 30 years: he would like tenth-largest Continental to be the biggest in some aspect of the aviation industry. Last week...
Over the Shoulders. At times, Mishima's single-pattern plot seems to glide in slow, repetitive cycles, freezing faces in glaring expressions like kabuki actors: frenzied passion, cross-eyed frustration. Still, what keeps the novel from being another existentialist dead end is the presence of the author. It is...
Last week the Nationalists drew 350,000 votes, captured an astonishing 103 seats in Scottish cities and towns. That was not enough to give them a majority in any city, but in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Stirling, they outpolled major parties to win the balance of political power. Those gains demonstrated...