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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cleverness makes a good comic, a broad vision of the human condition a great one. Ward's uninspired tales demonstrate neither. The book does introduce a masterfully controlled, subdued, wistful writing style, particularly in the concluding vignette, "With My Grandparents at an Inn: August, 1970." Here Ward has crafted a poignant, affecting reminiscence of his grandfather marvelous in its insights and impressively written, a welcome departure in style and substance from the rest of the book. If anything could save this book and Ward's reputation, this does...
Hitler and his followers, morally repugnant though they are, should not be excluded from the annals of leadership because their end was the destruction of human beings...
After the nightmare of World War II, we need to go beyond making obvious moral judgments of human beings in history. Unfortunately, James MacGregor Burns's book doesn't change the fact that "leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth." The mystery remains...
...book's interviews unveil Kerouac's immense sensitivity to and faith in human beings. Carolyn Cassidy claimed that "Jack fell in love with every woman he saw," intimating that he was always worried about hurting his friends and the women he knew. Thus, we are shown a very shy man. Some of Kerouac's childhood friends say that he did not have many girlfriends during high school because his "shyness was always taken as conceit...
...they said. He was wonderful and crazy, they said. He wrote great autobiographies and fathered the hippie generation, they said. Clearly, Kerouac started something in 1957 when On the Road was published. But the changes in American mores and literature that Kerouac inspired are due to his literary and human genius, not to wild and crazy stories. Holmes said it best: "Most books that come out are contained. That is, people say, 'I want to read that book.' But what happened when On the Road came out was, 'I want to know that man,' women saying, 'I want to sleep...