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...edgy plots unwind through the murky terrors of enforced espionage, Furst's heroes are always deeply human, if not particularly heroic. They are not professional spies but bystanders drafted by events, often Eastern Europeans from the downtrodden states of the continent's core. They live in a fog of moral ambiguity, caught in the shifting alliances and "gray positions" of current events, until unexpected circumstances force them to make choices without understanding the consequences of their acts. These enigmatic men--and the reader--almost never find out what really happened. Not everything is revealed; the story trails off, just...
...There's no reason to pair Ronald Reagan and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, except that they were born four years apart, long ago, in a different America, before the flood, and both came over with us into a new millennium, though they were enveloped in fog as we crossed the line. They make me think of Woodie Guthrie's '30s ballad based on "The Grapes of Wrath": "We buried Grandpa Joad on the Oklahoma Road,/ and Grandma on the California side...
...That war is chaos. This incredibly well functioning military machine simply doesn't work that way in the fog of war. People were lost. Although it was the culmination of the Powell doctrine of applying overwhelming force, Saddam is still there. He outlasted most of the Western leaders who fought against...
...than it should have, and the pettifogging afterblather is more than decent citizens should be asked to endure. I have pulled the covers over my head. In the month since the election, I have reread "War and Peace," interminable and still the greatest novel. No one ever described the fog of battle better than Tolstoy. I have lately been comforting myself with the Book of Proverbs, which I carry around in a pocket edition from Grove Press and dip into whenever I have had too much of "Hardball" or "The O'Reilly Factor...
...Rome. Through Rich's instinctive search for the figure of Orion, listeners and readers voyage with the poet through a life of activism, looking through "history's bloodshot eyes" across "the pathetic erections of soothsayers," before establishing Rich as a poet and activist "practiced in life," who scans the fog for her midnight salvage...