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...written that "an easy humanism" pervades the land's writing. Given the fact that you deal on a very personal basis with human stress, how do your distinguish your...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Updike Redux | 2/2/1972 | See Source »

...ultimately, in attempting to distinguish Hawkes's vision (and its moral implications) from his ambitious method (with its technical complexities) that one runs into the greatest difficulty. The Blood Oranges too much begs to be called either a masterpiece or a skillful put-on; I am not sure which. For the risk lies in praising the book for the wrong reasons, or in rejecting it because Hawkes's style--deliberately, I believe--tends to cloud the moral issues any serious novelist is obliged to face...

Author: By Robert Buford, | Title: The Blood Oranges | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

Your further letter has been received. In response, let me restate the purpose of my initial communication, which was to distinguish between two issues, i.e., (1) whether intelligence is hereditary and (2) whether if such is the case, the additional evidence of differential performance on intelligence tests justifies the further conclusion that there exists an hereditary difference in average intelligence between racial groups. Your responses deal very largely with (1) and you chide me for not accepting what you say, is the proven fact of heredity, including. I take it, not only that inheritance is a significant variable in explaining...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Musgrave-Herrnstein Letters | 1/20/1972 | See Source »

...Caesar is to be played up, it must of necessity be at the expense of Brutus. Andrew Hilton's Brutus is lost from the start, when he comes onstage in a drab bodystocking which fails to distinguish him from even the three-line walk-ons. He simply lacks the physical stature which Brutus requires to dominate the play. There is nothing wrong with Hilton's approach to the role, but his costuming detracts severely from his credibility. This defect changes the entire emphasis of the play. Normally, Julius Caesar is a drama which builds consistently to Antony's eulogy...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Julius Caesar | 1/11/1972 | See Source »

...listing jointly examples of financial opportunism, bribery and altruism, and failing to distinguish between them, you do a grave disservice to those of us in the U.S. who spend our money to express a point of view that we believe to be for the good of our nation-money that has no selfish motivation whatsoever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 20, 1971 | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

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