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...life seemed quite complete until Mailer had observed himself observing it: a huge anti-Viet Nam War march on the Pentagon (The Armies of the Night); political conventions (Miami and the Siege of Chicago); the Apollo space program (Of a Fire on the Moon). Mailer was not content simply turning out excellent books. He gave the impression that every moment he did not spend writing was given over to self-promotion. Proclaiming himself top contender for the crown of best American writer, he easily picked off the title for most interviewed. Says Buzz Farbar, a boxing, film-making and writing...
Taking on too much in 500 pages to be helpful in the particular, the book offers vague chapter headings ("How to Love Them," "How to Appreciate Their Taste," "How to Recognize Culture") which misleadingly hint at an objectivity and certainty their content never approaches. Zeldin can't be naive enough to believe he can do what his title suggests; this is not a Guide Michelin to French character...
...feel a fine-tuned understanding of Jean-Harris likes to analyze herself in terms of popular psychology. (Alexander notes that Harris was much influenced by Gail Sheehy's Passages). "Defying Dad was the main reason I married Jim," she says. "Also, unlike Dad, he was very quiet." Alexander seems content to accept in large part Harris's self-analysis, and indeed never questions why Harris needed to indulge in this sort of speculation. It is ironic and sad that Alexander fails to analyze her subject in the depth crucial to a defense of Jean Harris. For she believes that Harris...
...says, because his thinking was firmly rooted in a "day-to-day reporter's bits of insight and vivid glimpses." Nor will Strout's lucid style, his knowledge and integrity be easily matched. Editor Hendrik Hertzberg and Owner Martin Peretz hope to find a successor who is content to remain anonymous, as Strout was for a long time. That is asking a lot in an age of celebrity journalists and in a Washington that resents secrets...
...several New Testament passages on dominance hierarchies--the relations of master and slave, husband and wife, and society to individual. The class seems less than inspired. The professor pays close attention to the form of these passages and the original Greek, until finally a student brings up the content. One woman asks on whose authority Timothy based the subordinate place of women in the Chruch, to which another woman jokes. "He made it up," After class, a fellow student turns to Stevens and asks. "Did he say anything...