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On Thursdays, the textual stuff: approach, linguistical skill, emotive power, bias, mission. Is the historian willing to call judgement? If so, directly, or through irony (Gibbon), or through emphasis (Macauley). Method of research? Empiricism--footwork--or the pure remove of documents? Even Style: the visual mania of Carlyle; the reasoned...
U.S. officials announced Jan. 9 that 220 "unarmed civilians not involved in fighting and street disorders" had been killed in violence "directly related" to the invasion -- an ominously qualified statistic. But even that number, which has been challenged, is proportionally equivalent to 22,000 Americans. Add 314 Panamanian troops, and...
The emphasis on AIDS research is also beginning to draw fire from scientists whose non-AIDS projects have been squeezed for funds. Traditionally, major health efforts have fueled broad basic-research programs. But "AIDS money is targeted," observes Donald Fredrickson, former director of the National Institutes of Health. The narrow...
Indeed there is much that is childlike about the East Berliners and the way they express themselves. "In the East the heart is most important," a young nurse told me. "Not money. Everybody can live here regardless of whether he has money or not." One lady riding on the train...
Does any of this matter? As far as Pynchon's books are concerned, no. Yet in this celebrity-besotted era, the spectacle of someone avoiding exposure is naturally intriguing. And Pynchon's fiction, with its emphasis on suspected conspiracies and coded significances, makes him seem a dandy candidate for a...