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Bloom's view of literature as a ceaseless agon between challengers and titleholders is interesting and, in some instances, true. Virgil obviously had an eye on Homer when he set out to write The Aeneid, just as Dante and Milton had Virgil in their sights when they embarked upon The Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost. But Bloom cannot prove, on aesthetic or any other grounds, that all the writers he deems great shared the motives he ascribes to them. By the time he gets to a discussion of Emily Dickinson's poetry, he has grown so vexed at the absence...
...always spoke ex cathedra," says a senior editor), Bill was a vivid personality in an era when journalists tend to be a bland, earnest bunch. Everything he did was distinguished by a first-class intellect, which showed in his polished prose, his ability to organize complex material, and his ceaseless flow of ideas. But from his newspaper days he retained, along with two Pulitzer Prizes, a bracing professionalism. He never turned down an assignment, and he attacked even the most mundane task as if another Pulitzer depended...
Long before Rwanda's descent into chaos, Western donors had grown exhausted by the problems that beset sub-Saharan Africa: the ceaseless wars, ethnic violence, political turmoil, massive poverty and persistent famine. The region leads the world in the number of refugees and people displaced within their own country's borders, surpassing South Asia, North Africa and the Middle East combined...
This gut reaction to scripture is a deft stroke of literary subversion. It should not draw a Fundamentalist fatwa, though beef lobbyists and overweight- pride groups may grumble about the ceaseless bashing of carnivores and the amply proportioned. Theroux's main dodge is to see American puritanism in a frankly physical rather than spiritual light. Readers may take this sleight to heart or turn it into a belly laugh. Either way, the sorcerer and his apprentice encounter a nation with more than its share of knaves and hypocrites, including the Reverend Huber, a stock evangelist huckster, and Mr. Phyllis, cooing...
...ceaseless demands leave him with hard decisions to make. He wants to preach redemption to as many people as possible while he still can: he is already committed to Atlanta, Cleveland, Ohio and Tokyo for next year. Then comes a career climax, a 1995 revival meeting that will span the entire globe at once. In this technological Pentecost, sermons will be translated into dozens of languages and transmitted by satellite TV to about 130 nations -- possibly including mainland China...