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...clearest memories is trying to register the birth of my oldest daughter with the local ward office in Tokyo," he says. "They just couldn't understand that all babies born in Japan aren't born to Japanese parents...
...George Ward Byers plays Leonard Charteris, the male apex of the play's triangle, with energy. Caught between two women--an unwanted one who pursues him unrelentingly and a beloved one who affectionately refuses him -- and their bewildered fathers, Byers gracefully prances around the stage sporting engaging facial expressions. But he dandifies his role to the point where it is difficult to understand what the two women could see in him. Lorna Koski, as the woman scorned, strikes the most discordant note in the play. Unsuccessful at portraying Julia's passionate melodramatics, Koski appears to have lost not her decorum...
Disputes over land ownership -some of them caused by opportunistic Moslems who sold the same piece of property to different people-finally erupted into sectarian violence in late 1969. Christian immigrants formed quasi-vigilante groups called Ilagas (rats) to ward off Moslems who were trying to seize land. The Moslems formed terrorist gangs known as Barracudas and Blackshirts. As the communal violence spread, young Moslem intellectuals began to oppose not only the Christian settlers and the government but even their own elderly Moslem leaders, whom they accused of corruption. The young dissidents preached secession...
Similar services have sprung up in Charlotte, N.C., Northern Illinois and throughout the Midwest. In Northern California, National Postal Service last year delivered 84 million advertising circulars and other third-class mail for J.C. Penney, Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck, among other customers. N.P.S. was paid $33 per thousand pieces of mail, about $17 less than the USPS charges...
Horovitz's just-published Cappella, his first novel, is a strange mixture of forms; certainly not a novel in the ordinary sense. The story weaves around two characters--one young, one old--who lie in adjacent beds in a hospital surgical ward. A copyist assigned to note everything dictated by the young man, Byron, relates the story. But the copyist makes his task a greater one and copies diligently not only what Byron says, but what he thinks, and also what his roommate, the 70-year-old Cappella, says and thinks and does. The novel is this copyist's first...