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...cookie. As is Lonoff; as is Zuckerman; as is Roth himself. The Ghost Writer is a bruising book. Within its artfully tangled plot, Roth tells off his critics and debunks romantic notions of the writing life. Henry James' "passion of doubt" and "madness of art" become a medieval incubus and fanatic patience; Lonoff, more the ascetic Old World Jew than his Yankee trappings might indicate, spends all his time pushing sentences around and worrying about them. His comment on writing 27 drafts of a single story: "To get it wrong so many times...
...national chairman. "He spent the first two years of Nixon trying to convince the people back home that he was the President's right hand man," says one Midwesterner. "He spent the last two years trying to convince them he never saw the guy." Free of the Nixon incubus, Dole's dilemma is ended. His opponent, Congressman William Roy, has been attacking him for being close to the former President. That attack has been blunted by Nixon's resignation, and Dole's chances of holding his seat in Republican Kansas have been enhanced accordingly...
...authors, "would be a cure for opiate addiction. But no such cure exists, nor is there one on the horizon-and there exist no clues as to where such a miracle cure might be found. Methadone maintenance is not a panacea. But it frees addicts from the heroin incubus" and can turn "a majority of heroin addicts into law-abiding citizens...
...finally reaches a period. Even the reader who has earned his explorer's badge in trackless writing may have some initial trouble with such prose. Giuseppe Berto, whose writing career began in 1948 with an excellent war novel, The Sky Is Red, unveiled his new nonstop style in Incubus (TIME, Feb. 4, 1966), a remorseless account of a screenwriter's experience with psychoanalysis. Paradoxically, the method turns out to be better suited to a much more commonplace story, where radical style refreshes a traditional subject...
Though rid of the Hughes incubus, Tillinghast and TWA do not lack for problems, thanks to the lively state of airline competition. "Our industry," says American's President Sadler, "can't compete on price, so we have to compete with gimmicks...