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...nation's first nuclear submarines. He gave a mournful lecture on the power of the megaton--"a lot of explosives"--and gallantly accepted "the most important single responsibility on the shoulders of a president:" preventing nuclear war. More generally, he described himself as "part of a great continuum" of leaders who devote all of their energy to facing "serious matters...
Here is a masterly novel asking placement in the continuum of broader history. It invites and aspires to comparisons with the great novels of literary history. The lines and intersections of characters' lives are set within the dislocating phases of world events. All is understood in the perspective of the slowwheeling geometry of time's sweep. Hazzard handles her saga about the lonely remnants of several families with a stylish cinematic control that gives us a highly structured plot moving in the shadow of Greek tragedy. She roams the world with a chastened recognition of larger patterns beyond individual fate...
...intriguing way, even these flaws contribute to making this an "important" book. The Transit of Venus upholds the continuum of "great literature." While it is brilliantly modern and engrossing for our age, it appeals to the problems of life, to our steadier thoughts, and to the timeless mysticism of a story well told. Far more than a museum piece, it retains a seriousness and dignity beyond most contemporary fiction...
...drinking, smash-the-state buddies then plunged into a peculiarly American form of modern revolutionism for several months. By day, they harangued students at Seattle's high school and college campuses on the war, racism and capitalism. By night they caroused into the early hours in a blurry continuum of beer, pot, sex and leftist war cries. But the frenetic "mobilizing" and hedonism was itself a clue to Marshall's own eventual disillusionment with radicalism. He had broken with S.D.S. in 1969 when it was taken over by the hate-filled and paranoid Weatherman. He says...
...YORK NO WAVE was always a bit mysterious to those outside the immediate scene. The musical snatches that sneaked out confused rather than clarified. The fact that it was "no" wave indicated that it was somehow removed from the normal musical continuum. It was a cerebral expression of nothing in particular; an anti-art cry from the steel and glass super-structures of the Big Apple...