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...American Radical as Type is still fair game for anyone who wants to write about American History without being blamed for it. He's an ideal beast to track, since any snare laid for him will yield something, if only a few toenails and a tuft of hair. The hunters can return to town with the news that he just got away, the assumption that there is such a composite creature secure and even vindicated. The Hofstadters and the Goldmans have all fiddled extensively with his natural and social environment, and it has remained for Christopher Lasch to lead...
...think the chase of the Questing Beast breaks down for lack of game, but the by-products of Mr. Lasch's journey are plentiful and fascinating. Given a thesis just vague enough to apply to anybody, we begin to realize that he's writing about, Americans, not just intellectuals; the pathological tone of earlier writings on the subject has disappeared, and a thoroughly entertaining act of scholarship has been committed...
Chewed-Up Steel. Dentistry on the vicious and powerful baboon is quite a trick. The beast is first squeezed into the bottom of a special cage, where it gets a heavy injection of tranquilizer. Then it can be hauled off to the operating table, where anesthetic is given as needed. As in human patients, new membrane forms around the implanted tooth, Dr. Hodosh reports, with no sign so far of inflammatory or cancerous reactions...
...death." Another flash reveals the writer in the throes of creation, dipping his pen into his own blood: "Writing may have been a game in other ages. Today it is a grave duty, to proclaim a state of mobilization, to urge men to do their utmost to surpass the beast...
...Beastly Nature. If the Devil is a woman, her name is undoubtedly Lady Wu. She was Cleopatra, Catherine the Great and Lucrezia Borgia rolled into one, and from A.D. 655 to 704, first as Empress and later as "female Emperor," she subjected China to a reign of unprecedented terror. In this lightly fictionalized and gruesomely readable account of her career, Lin Yutang dispassionately describes the nature of the beast and the events of an era that still stands as history's most horrible experience of petticoat government...