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The nightmare of the new automation is the optical character reader, which shoots out 30,000 pieces of mail an hour and shows no mercy. A postal clerk has about a second to read an address and punch in the first three digits of the ZIP code, which is then...
Readers not familiar with Sinyavsky's style or the content of his life may have difficulty with the half-submerged facts. He was born into an affluent family in 1925. His father, who appears in the book as a brilliant though ineffectual figure out of a Chekhov play, was a...
The younger Sinyavsky's preparations for an uncertain future were plodding by comparison. After World War II, he studied Russian literature at Moscow State University. During the early '50s he held a research job at the Gorky Institute of World Literature. But then, in 1956, the scholar-critic secretly wrote...
True, he recycles the familiar perception of Disneyland as a benign totalitarian community and echoes criticism of the Reform Judaism of his youth as an apology for being a Jew. But Mamet has a fresher approach to the politics of image and empty rhetoric. He equates Ronald Reagan's feeble...
Do not bother to label Mamet a liberal or a conservative. He is a free radical attaching himself to whatever particle of reality promises further knowledge of the whole. At times he can be -- well, freakish. How about an interpretation of Superman as the most vulnerable of beings because his...