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...short fingers with flat nails. Pale fingers with soft black down on the knuckles." Thus Hannah, a pretty young student at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, met a geologist-to-be named Michael Gonen. This novel by the popular Israeli writer Amos Oz is Hannah's first-person account of her ten-year marriage to Michael. The sentences fall like the drip drip drip of the rain on Hannah's Jerusalem, and what the voice within her keeps repeating...
...dramatic a writer as any novelist while also demonstrating that literature need not shrink from confronting social crises. Later, when Wilson turned to autobiographical essays as a fresh way of exploring the meanings of American life, he did so with a dignity and thoroughness that would put present-day first-person confessionalists to shame...
...SINCE, by its own self-admission. Cabaret "is more than a musical," consideration must be paid to the themes the film develops, matters in which the movie is not at all convincing. Going from Isherwood's first-person narration to the camera's more omniscient eye. Cabaret promises to give us a more complete, balanced view of its characters. By restricting its musical numbers to the cabaret setting, it clears the board for increased attention to the relatively straightforward plot that occurs in between the songs. As a result, one ends up demanding more of an intellectual hard-headedness from...
Arnheiter had served brilliantly (1960-63) in a Pentagon propaganda shop, and once, at the Navy's request, wrote and published a book under a cold war nom de guerre-the purported first-person account by a Russian naval commander of his threatening undersea exploits in a Soviet submarine. Its aim was to scare readers enough to encourage larger congressional appropriations for the Navy...
Perhaps The Arnheiter Affair's only weak point is the clear break in style between the prologue and epilogue and the body of the book. In the first and last sections. Sheehan employs a first-person narrative to tell how he dug out the details of the story; but also, this technique enables him to contribute some valuable commentary. He notes how the press is manipulated by government, regardless of attempts at detachment and objectivity; he shows the human side of human nature, and he sees that an event such as the Arnheiter case cannot be capsuled as a symbolic...