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...Insult to Churchill? Andrew Sullivan's attempt to draw parallels between Winston Churchill and Bush in his essay "If It Could Happen to Churchill ..." was unconvincing [March 8]. Churchill's war against Hitler was necessary. Bush's war against Saddam Hussein was not. Churchill knew what Hitler was doing. Bush relied on faulty intelligence about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. After the war, Britons may have wanted a different political party to lead them during peace. Postwar America's decision about who should be President is still up in the air. Only the elections will tell. Let's wait...
...Seldom have I found an essay to be more off the mark. Sullivan's only correct statement is that Bush faces re-election problems. Although Churchill was indeed a great leader, Sullivan's claim that "he was the difference between victory and defeat" carries things way too far. It was the British navy and air force that kept the Nazis from invading Britain. But final victory required having Russia and the U.S. on Britain's side. So whether the British Prime Minister had been Neville Chamberlain or Winston Churchill or Clement Attlee, there would not have been a British defeat...
...monstrous tally doesn?t include another 80,000 words, more or less, for other TIME.com stories that don?t quite fit the requirements of TOF: Oscar predictions and wrapups, reports on Cannes Film Festival prize-winners, some baseball ruminations and a few expansions of pieces (like this week?s essay on Ben Affleck) that have run in the magazine...
...Buster Keaton and Douglas Fairbanks (when their films appeared in handsome video collections), on Dorothy Dandridge (a new biography), on the comedy band leader Spike Jones (a double-CD set, with liner notes by Thomas Pynchon). One year, a splendid season of every Samuel Beckett play cued a longish essay; the next, the packaging of musical shorts from the 30s and 40s. And there was the week when all the grownups were on vacation and I assigned myself a page on a Hawaiian steel-guitar virtuoso of the 1920s. For goodness? sake, why? Because I liked...
...first book on Yeats, Vendler focused on a prose essay entitled “A Vision,” comparing it to some of his later plays. Her second time around, she will concentrate solely on the poems...