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Compounding the difficulties for Eastern Europe is political unrest and economic chaos in the Soviet Union as well as, farther away, the conflict in the Persian Gulf. Turmoil in the Middle East has pushed up oil prices and curtailed world markets at the very moment when the Soviet Union, still...
Walter can usually wither the untoward with a cold stare through his steel- rimmed spectacles, though sometimes it is necessary to bark a few brusque commands in order to send it scurrying. India, on the other hand, has a more coquettish relationship with it: she takes painting classes, flirts momentarily...
In the 1950s and '60s, when Evan S. Connell wrote the two quiet, delicately crafted novels that are expertly and faithfully conflated in Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, we had not yet learned to call marriages of this kind "traditional," putting a slight, sneering spin on the word. Just as this...
For it is axiomatic that in the end the American people must accept responsibility for what is happening inside the beltway. Too many voters have allowed themselves to be seduced by the notion that they can have their goodies from government with no increase in price. A mighty military, Social...
And in the eighties, he is doomed to fall apart. Throughout Rabbit at Rest, Updike contends that the eighties are all about disaster. In the opening pages, Updike categorizes the decade as a time of "Everything falling apart, airplanes, bridges, eight years under Reagan of nobody minding the store, making...