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EVERBODY'S got an inside story... Rita Jenrette revealed the lewdnes of the Congressional social scene, Woodward and Armstrong blitzed the justices of the Supreme Court, John Dean sold his mea culpa to the networks for a million dollars. Such books usually break down into one of three types: gripes, boasts or confessions. Few are flexible enough to encompass all of these forms, but those that do can evoke sympathy for the writer and emnity for his oppressors. Charles LeBaron's Gentle Vengeance--An Account of the First Year at Harvard Medical' School is this protean type; complaining and bragging...
...hungry" until the end of this century (Far Eastern Economic Review, 9 Jan. 1981). Ngo Vinh Long may wish to refrain from criticizing the regime. There is no need for such restraint on the part of others, as the regime is doing a fairly good job of crying mea culpa for its appalling economic performance (which, by the way, it is blaming on mismanagement rather than on American hostility and pressures). Meanwhile, the population of Vietnam, North and South, faces the prospect of oppression as well as hunger and poverty until the end of the century under a regime which...
Eighteen years ago, in 8½ Federico Fellini confessed that he was a director who had nothing to say, and despite the arresting imagery with which he made his mea culpa, one was more than willing to concede the point. In the next seven films he demonstrated it with ever more empty extravagance. Now, confronting this gaudily misanthropic survey of how feminism has tipped the balance of power in the war between the sexes, one finds that one has moved beyond outrage and impatience to simple weariness...
Then last week, in an extraordinary front-page mea culpa, the New York Times set about refurbishing Kerry's reputation. Headlined "New Evidence Backs Ex-Envoy on His Role in Chile," a 2,300-word article by former Times Investigative Ace Seymour Hersh, who still does occasional freelance pieces for the paper, reported that although attempts had been made by the CIA to engineer a military takeover in Chile, "none of this, it is now evident, was known to Ambassador Korry." What the Times failed to mention was that the writer who was clearing Kerry's name...
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