detests are very much like Americannlandlords or superintendents, worriednabove all about the safeguarding ofnproperty, such as Allende’s house. However,nin the spirit of The Adventuresnof Huckleberry Finn, a soldier finds anbox of old bullets in the house. Henthreatens to report the box unless Evenyields to his lust. This gives ProfessornRichards a chance to write a series ofnsex scenes. Their sole relevance is tonshow that no tortures on earth, but onlynthis kind of situation can force Eve tondecide to leave Chile—so much doesnshe love her country. But as she climbsnthe wall of the Italian Embassy, innaccordance with dozens of earlier escapenstories, “military men stationed on thenroof of the house next door” fire andnkill her. However, before her death. Evendelivers a 100-word-or-so speech innthe best “revolutionary” bureaucratese:n”Dear friends, those of you who havenbeen seized by the spirit of hope andnsolidarity know neither …”nThe second reason for fictionalizingnold newspaper columns is that while annewspaper columnist, even one likenAnthony Lewis or Tom Wicker, is boundnby certain factual constraints, thenauthor of a fictionalized column isnbound by nothing, for his version is anwork of fiction, is it not? For example,nat this writing the New York Timesn(May 18, 1979) reports that a “Chileanncourt today freed 39 people arrested onnorders of the Ministry of the Interiornfor demonstrating against a governmentnban.” We cannot hear anything likenthat from Cuba, Russia or mainlandnChina because there they have no courtnin the sense that we know it: then”court” in such regimes is a group ofnthe totalitarian rulers’ minor subordinates.nHowever, in contrast to the NewnYork Times, Professor Richards is notnobligated to take this into account, fornwho can constrain the imaginationnof an artist?nWhat happened in Chile in 1973?nKarl Marx believed that the morendeveloped a free enterprise country was,nZxnChronicles of Culturenthe smaller its handful of “moneybags”nand the greater its boundless sea ofnworkers, paupers and proletariansnwould be. Therefore, it would be nonproblem for the latter to rise in theirninfinite numbers and expropriate thendwindling handful of “moneybags.”nActually, the more a free enterprisencountry develops, the larger its middlenclass becomes—such as the truckers innChile. Hence Allende’s and his fellowtravelers’nthreat was not against andwindling handful of “moneybags,” asnit should have been, according to KarlnMarx, but against a middle class (suchnas the truckers) sufficiently large tonstrike back at the actual or potentialnexpropriators—and very viciously too,nfor the mere threat of the loss of theirnproperty makes many people vicious. Inhave noticed that some of those samenAmericans who hail or take for grantednexpropriations in other countries arenupset about a comparatively triflingnloss of their money—through inflation,nfor example.nIn this sense, the world perception ofnSalvador Allende, Mr. Lewis, Mr.nWicker or Professor Richards is anythingnbut Marxist. History to them isnnot a struggle of social group interests.nRather it is their own version of anSunday school sermon, according tonwhich they and their property arenGood, while other people’s property isnEvil, and so these Evil people mustngive it up with guilty smiles.nThe only successful mass expropriationnof a sufficiently large middle classnhas, so far, been the way of Lenin andnIn the forthcoming issue of Chronicles of Culture:nTwo Culturesn”Mr. William Styron was born in Viisinia. sorvti] in the Mjrinf C^orps.nstudied at Duke University. The narrJtoi of Suphit i Chun c was ixirnnin Virginia, served in the Marine Coips. stiidifd ai Hukf llniciMt.nHe is also a novelist. He is introduce! to us li Ins s<.hiH>l nitknami-.n’Stingo.’ It is safe, therefore, to assume tiiat Mr StMcm and bhngonare two different persons. However, Mi Sivum mav IK a whimsicalnironist who has created a parody on the novel, and called this [I,IKK1nSophie’s Choice, allegedly written by a teitain Stingo. That ihe booknjs a parody is clear from its very first p.ii.i^i jpli.nfrom “Moujik “n’Pulp Sandwich”nby Lev Navrozovn”We are told, for example, that Julian SOIL! -the hiio ol ‘UH KCIJunitnthe Black—IS ‘the first voice of ultimate liass haded in a ma]or worknof literature,’ and that ‘Stendhal identitied hiinselt with Julian.” Howevein. . . Lord Snow asserts that the authoi of 7 Ac ( hdrlfrhiiiii ol Piirmjn’would have liked to be an Italian aristoi lat.’ PossibK class hatred andnthe desire to be an Italian aristocrat can be made compatilile: but onenwould like to be shown how.”nfrom “Lord Snow on Art and Life”nby Dain A. TraftonnAlso:nOpinions & Views—Commenddblcs—In FocusnWaste of Money—The American ProsceniumnScreen—Music—Liberal Culture—JournalismnPolemics & n^cchangesnnn