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...suspension of time implicit in the device of these four divided selves is partly responsible. With several Hemingways at once, all at different ages, the date of the play has to be vaguely late forties. Four characters is okay; four different decades would he too much. So this grand tournament of writers is static--which is unconvincing, unless Hemingway compared himself to many other writers, despite his own distinctive style, and unless his source of approval was no more specific than the general acclaim of the bestseller lists...
DECTER might have been more convincing had she relied purely on fiction. Much of the best literature has elements of sociology implicit in it. But if readers are to draw parallels between characters and themselves, there must be some way to identify with the characters. The characters in Radical Children never attain the depth necessary for such identification, for the prefatory letter clearly distinguishes between the reader and the read--and anyhow who is willing to identify with a character named "the girl" who has been labelled "The Pothead...
...Patrolmen's Benevolent Association accepted the layoffs, though with bitterness and threats of work slowdowns. Firemen called in sick in record numbers. The sanitation workers, with the token protest but implicit approval of their union leadership, illegally left their jobs, promising to turn New York into "Stink City" and shouting from picket lines, "Wait 'til the rats come...
Frei and other critics have been careful to limit their statements to the economy, but they contain an implicit political criticism as well. Indeed, secret-police repression has discouraged many foreign governments from helping Chile overcome its economic plight...
...gives them a visual texture that they lack on the small scale. One needs to walk around them and clamber inside their angular crevices. The planes of steel, sliding briskly through space, need real-life perspective before they can impose themselves. Above all, there is a degree of risk implicit in large scale, and Pepper relishes it: the springing cantilever that seems about to topple but does not, the aggressive sharpness of edges (maquette the knife) and thrust of needle points...