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...there is only Vietnam. The rubble of Vietnam. Over and over and over and over again in the public lecture halls, on television, in the papers -- everywhere. We have heard all the arguments, pro and con, a thousand times. We have tread the path of the same argument countless times and in each case derived the same answer. All else, previously beautiful, has faded from our sight. We have become disillusioned as a nation because we hear nothing but Vietnam -- day and night. And in addition to all this ugliness and loss of beauty -- it's damn boring. George...
Author MacDonald raises the take to $800,000 in untraceable cash, and broadens the cast to include finagling financiers, tough Texas lawyers, Cuban exiles, beach boys, con men and cops. He has also invented a demented new character who holds the shipwrecked girl prisoner, thereby prolonging the story and deepening the suspense. The action ranges from Corpus Christi to Sarasota to Nassau-and everywhere MacDonald demonstrates his ability to handle complex relationships involving scads of people on a single page...
...writing and speaking, he apparently has complete control over his emotions. They never intrude into the bright, short sentences. This could be the product of years of iron selfdiscipline and scholarly commitment, but Fairbank seems to possess a more natural gift--perspective. Behind that curious, expressionless face lies a con...
...Rainwater and William L. Yancey have written a book about the con-controversy that ensured [The Moynihan Report and the Politics of Controversy, M.I.T. Press (forthcoming)] and much that here follows draws on them. Predictably, albeit unbeknown to the White House, trouble began within the permanent government, as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. calls the civil-service bureaucracies. The report and the speech were wholly the product of the Presidential government. The welfare bureaucracy knew nothing of either, but as closer inquiry put the two together it was instantly perceived that the adequacy of the welfare bureaucracy's efforts and even...
...homosexual love fantasies of the narrator. Much of the force of Miracle of the Rose depends on the authenticity of the prison argot. As a ten-time loser who has spent a good part of his first 35 years in reformatories and jails, Genet doubtless knows the con's language like a native, but when it comes to English equivalents, Translator Frechtman has no luck at all. Genet, who is a practicing pervert and retired male prostitute, presumably knows the camp language exchanged by consenting adults. And it is hard to believe, for example, that a kiss between homosexual...