Word: details
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this rings true, but it has been ringing true for the past decade in works of greater sensitivity and better detail. Kozol offers neither a new approach to the problem, nor new evidence. In fact, he seems to feel little obligation to base any of his conclusions on evidence, and relies instead on instinct. This weakens Kozol's effort, for the most convincing chapter in the book is one based on his own observations and experience in free schools. He argues that "open" schools can be just as politically indoctrinating as traditional schools, and are all the more dangerous because...
Levy's book is not a biography, not an autobiography, not a history and yet is an intimate and sometimes insightful story of a man and his union. As historical reportage, the book fails because of its lack of critical distance and inattention to detail. As biography it fails because only small sections of the book are written by Levy himself. The book is closest to autobiography although Chavez had no say over what to include. Form should, of course, be wedded to function; the ambiguity in the form of Levy's book reveals a certain confusion on the author...
...beginning was an obscure soft-core paperback original to which no one paid special heed. Then came the Patty Hearst kidnaping, and someone noticed that cheap fiction seemed to predict this sensational crime in detail, even including the plot twist that had the victim eventually embrace the captors' ideology. Parallels continue to turn up: recent reports indicate that Hearst surrendered to revolutionary sexuality even before succumbing to revolutionary politics-just as Abduction s heroine...
...thirds water, the rest nitrogen, carbon, calcium and a myriad of other chemicals-worth only about $5, even at today's inflated prices. That is the strange machinery of the human body. It appears in unprecedented and almost incredible detail this week on the Public Broadcasting Service (see facing page). Produced by the National Geographic Society and Wolper Productions, created by Irwin Rosten and narrated by Actor E.G. Marshall, the hour-long film is entitled, naturally enough, The Incredible Machine. It uses microscopy, X rays and telescopic lenses tiny enough to penetrate the body's innermost recesses...
Still, no journalist has treated the four days of the Mayaguez with such attention to personal and military detail. His facts, speedily and scrupulously assembled, make a strong, if arguable case for the American response. To Rowan, amid all the ambivalent U.S. op erations overseas, the recovery of the Mayaguez now appears to be an odd but valid entry in the saga of victory...