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...City, into the "finished, unfinished position" at which he finds himself when the book ends. He thinks that it has something to do with his sister Nellie, but there seems to be an emotion here that is too powerful and complex for him to convey: the isolation he laments throughout the novel finally cuts him off from the reader. There should be more than just echoes of Nellie. Perhaps sometimes the sealed resonance of the style (reading the book is like probing through a cave) could put people off, making them wary of contrived profundity, of too imposing a persistence...
...generation, at Harvard and elsewhere, tried futilely to convey the outrage which Americans generally, and Congress in particular, felt only recently; and that is what is so terribly sad, that their efforts were so futile. In May of 1971, the U.S. government could round up 7000 Washington demonstrators in one day--10,000 in a week--and get away with it. Nixonian Washington had so undermined the credibility of students and the Left by then that most Americans visualized only a bunch of crazed hippies roaming the streets of the Capitol. A handful of people, such as those who marched...
Peter Stansky and William Abrahams follow Blair's life in considerable detail. Their attempts to convey the atmosphere of St. Cyprian's preparatory school, Eton, and Burma show they researched and wrote their account carefully. But that does very little to remedy their focus on the peripheral facets of Blair-Orwell's life...
...built a library for his papers of which he was inordinately proud. He still ate at lunch counters, stopped at roadside restaurants on his rare trips, and offered no punditry to later Presidents. He was discontented with the intellectual style of the 1952 candidate, Adlai Stevenson, but could not convey to him what he felt was wrong. Truman was a man of action, and deprived of the power to act, he receded into near anonymity...
...seeking to convey this sense, Wills succeeds brilliantly. Wills's failing is a kind endemic to the journalist who think well and thinks a lot. Wills's style, like Norman Mailer's is that of the elastic bag. He can go from profound talk about the Vatican doctrine on birth control as "biological teleology passing through stoic reductionism" to a discussion of the nun who thinks that public relations slogans and graphics are this era's most important contribution to the arts. He throws together all sorts of ideas and facts, shakes them up, and up, and Voila! The problem...