Word: authorization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the author betrays an unremitting contempt for black people throughout the book...
...author, Watson has a sense of the dramatic, and he milks the character Pauling for all he is worth. Through almost all the book, we do not meet him--we only hear how good he is, and how successful he has been. "There had been previous encounters with Pauling, stretching over a 25-year interval. All too often Linus had got there first...
...perfect example of the new kind of journalism which has come to dominate the best-seller lists. Like Norman Mailer on the conventions, Watson is telling what happened as Watson saw it, as Watson likes to remember it. Thus, we are provided as much insight into the author as into the subject. And this is the way Watson intended it, for just as the new journalism proclaims that the story depends on the reporter, Watson writes in his introduction that science's steps forward "are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles...
...point must be clearly made before a valid consideration of this novel can be undertaken. Today a novel on any phase of the black revolution is de facto propaganda and allegory, whatever the author's disposition toward his subject matter may be. In consequence, aesthetic considerations must take second place to the social and political ones in criticizing such a book. With artistic considerations aside, Mr. Styron's novel is little more than an attempt to demean Nat Turner and the black people. The book fails to make good its claim to historical veracity and perpetuates a large number...
Second, the author implies that Turner's influence over the other blacks was the result of his status as a house slave...