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...days ago New York liberal witnessed a particularly distressing spectacle: Javits attacking Holtzman, who shares many of his positions on the issues, as an extremist saddled with all the "doctrinaire naivete of the left." By turning his wrath on the infinitely preferable Holtzman, the aging Senator has chosen a graceless--if not downright irascible--way to end his illustrious 24-year career. Javits' attacks only serve to give credence to D'Amato's charges that Holtzman is a "radical," by which D'Amato means a Communist sympathizer...
...There is a deep sadness in Washington this week. Concern about Jimmy Carter and his Administration has gone beyond anger. The immediate shock of the graceless Cabinet changes will wear off, but doubts about the President will grow even larger and seep out across the world. Ultimately, they are doubts about America...
Understandably, there was a time when Farrell was a lodestar of the non-Communist left. His Studs Lonigan trilogy is a genre classic, a cluttered memoir of graceless Irish poor whose lyricism and potential are crushed in the struggle to survive. H.L. Mencken called their creator "the best living novelist," and Critic Alfred Kazin noted respectfully that "Farrell was the archetypal novelist of the crisis and its inflictions ... all the rawness and distemper of the thirties seem to live in [his] novels...
They are named Phantom Flasher, Lazarus, The Red Onion, Chiquita Vanana, Vandal and such. They ride high and graceless, as always, but now their boxy bodies cry out for attention with garish designs and obstreperous Pap art: frontier scenes, Hawaii schlock, seascapes, erotic mush. Even one-the specimen, say, that flashes nude girls in and out of view with Op-artful magic-can pop the eyeballs. When large numbers heave into sight, zooming along the road in a spaced-out phantasmagoria of a caravan, they can set the innocent motorist to gaping and muttering, "What is going on here...
...least be superbly crafted--taut, gripping, smoothly written, and so forth. The fact is that's simply not it at all. Hailey's books are rather clumsily put together, all in exactly the same way, and while he could never be accused of overwriting his sentences are still graceless, his dialogue wooden, his characters two-dimensional. And his latest book, The Moneychangers, which came out in paperback last month, is a great deal like all his other books. It is about an American institution (banking); it is selling like hotcakes (number one on the bestseller lists); it is the product...