Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SINCE OATES CONSISTENLY tells us that the ugly side of life is the true one, her point in "The Translation" must be that the first translator made the woman seem nobler than she really was. But in some deeper sense, the fat man was incapable of telling the truth. The...
Oates' point seems to be that when grand existential problems are embodied in real people, they take the form of mental disease. Philosophical dilemmas are noble in the abstract, but in reality they twist people into hideous shapes. Night-Side seems to be an indictment of philosophers on behalf of...
Jörg Müller's The Changing Countryside (Atheneum; $9.95), is the pictorial equivalent of music-an unbound suite of seven large luminous paintings (33¾ in. by 12½ in.) that spellbind without the use of words. Though Müller is Swiss, his story, unfortunately...
In many ways, the war in Vietnam marked a turning point in reporters' visions of war. Before Vietnam, as Nora Ephron once wrote, the war correspondent's job was considered "the only classic male endeavor left that provides physical danger and personal risks without public disapproval and the awful truth...
From where Herr watched, the war was insanity. Nothing made sense; things moved too fast, in a kaleidoscope of killing and death. Generals lied to the public, to their men, to themselves. The press was trapped into disseminating lies, under the guise of objective reporting. Soldiers--young men drafted from...