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...Mano's concern, however, is not with polemics or politics. He is absorbed, instead, by two seemingly antithetical characters: Jones, a disgruntled, cowardly medic who is a cranky version of Catch-22's manic Yossarian, and the patrol leader, Sergeant Hook, whose claw is a spiritual but deadlier version of Captain Hook's famous iron hand...
While we zip to the moon, wage wars, fight poverty, create ever deadlier weapons, and generally confine our thinking to today's world, the Senators and intelligent conservationists everywhere are trying to forge a positive answer to the question: If man survives his political and economic blunders, will there be enough left of mother nature to make survival worth surviving for? Now if we could just set up an International Office of Environmental Quality...
There were other steady-eyed observers who also described correctly the buboes, or underarm swellings, that told of death in five or six days, and the congested lungs of the even deadlier pneumonic form of the plague that killed within two or three days. Gethin's lament is remarkable because it makes the pain and terror vivid 600 years later. The authors of these two books on the Black Death mention the consistently abstract, numb quality of most contemporary chronicles...
...secessionist sentiments in East Pakistan. He rails against domination by the much better-off West and demands that the new government redress the old inequities-or else. Says he: "What the people did against Ayub, they can do against General Yahya. But this time, the demonstrations will be even deadlier...
...collection of quickie critical pieces done for British and U.S. periodicals shows how robustly a generously endowed intelligence like Burgess's can flourish within the limits of deadline and an even deadlier limitation of space...