Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...THIS SEEMS short shrift for a major novel by one of America's foremost writers, well, it is. The book: as you might have guessed by now, is painfully bad. The writing tries to mimic the Biblical cadence which translators often give to old, mythic stories and hence seems gimmicky, especially with Mailer's consuming interest in sex and scatology (an important episode in the book comes when Menenhetet steals some of the Pharaoh's feces, I swear). But even more annoying than the problems in execution, the concerns of the book, and its vacillation between comic book heroism...
...astonishing that anyone could write a 200-page book on love and sex without ever mentioning kindness or morality and without considering the possibility that some actions are right and others wrong. But Liebowitz has done so keeping his discussion to "feeling good and feeling bad," "pleasure centers," "romantic wiring," and "the brain's data banks." Liebowitz' materialist amorality is to be expected if one is familiar with his supposedly successful therapies, for instance, giving drugs to a woman which allowed her to abandon a husband she no longer found attractive. Once we begin altering people's minds with drugs...
...living reminders of the horror, what was once clear will become murky, what was once obvious a question. Had the diaries been taken at face value and their authenticity never questioned, there would no doubt have come a time when Hitler would appeared to have been "not such a bad guy after...
...caught with some bad breaks and as a result it took us almost a half to get going." Northwestern Coach Cindy Timohal said. "We had opportunities but just didn't take advantage...
...listening primarily to grousers. But their complaints have the ring of being widely shared. He cites a Gallup poll showing more hostility to the press than at any time since Gallup began asking the question. Sometimes the press responds that no one loves the messenger who brings bad tidings, a complacent defense that concedes no mistakes...