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Moscow's main attraction for the Communist faithful is the Lenin Tomb in Red Square. Every day, thousands of visitors walk silently past the glass and granite crypt, stare reverently at the dimly lit, waxy-looking corpse guarded by rigid soldiers, then file back into the sunlight. Last week Soviet officials announced that the mausoleum would be closed for the next two months. "Normal repairs," was the explanation. But on what-or whom...
...poet's dominant expression has become a piercing stare, accompanied by a silence that encompasses all but his closest friends. "I did not enter into silence," Ezra Pound told one of those friends, French Publisher Dominique de Roux last week. "Silence captured me." De Roux, who will soon publish Pound's major work, Cantos, in French, says the silence indicates "a profound sense of remorse"-a remorse that has been growing deeper since 1958, when Pound was released from a Washington mental institution, where he was confined for twelve years after being indicted for treason because...
...hunger, where blatant homosexualism can be shrugged off but snitching a handful of rice is a capital offense. The unfortunates of Changi face their greatest agony after V-J day, when a solitary British paratrooper strides up to the prison gate and liberates them. Is he real? The prisoners stare blankly, then retreat in panic, suddenly jolted into the awareness that the horror of what they have become looms between them and the world for which they have survived. King Rat preaches no moral, but it succeeds at unearthing the big tough questions that make a moviegoer think for himself...
...take Thurmond. We need his vote." It was civil rights that gave Nixon trouble in 1960, and it could give him trouble in another national campaign. "We must not compromise on our national civil rights stand [now a strong one]," he proclaimed automatically, but then gave me a harsh stare and scolded, "I have grave questions about the current civil rights leadership...
...from the expert expressiveness of the famous illustrations by Tenniel, have a charm all their own. They summon an image of dear Dodgson as he sat back, pen in hand and collar askew, to beam at this lucky squiggle or that eager splodge and imagine how Alice would soon stare at it with huge believing eyes. The later Alice is a work of literature; the earlier a work of love...