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The most insightful of the four short essays in the third, entitled "The Second Imperial Requiem, "Galbraith provides the not-so-new but always refreshing argument countering extremists on both sides of the spectrum who rally against U.S./U.S.S.R. neo-imperialism. He notes that an irrational reactionary rivalry between the...
Chesterton was happiest in an arena he never really left: the nursery. The happy child turned into a neurotic adolescent haunted by unspecified guilts. He could only assuage them with religion. "Dogma," he was to conclude, "does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought." The childless...
In an academic community, Brustein's approach to literature verges on insurrection. Professors tend to cherish fidelity to a text and tradition in its interpretation. Brustein seeks to make every play speak to the present, and does not revere even Shakespeare's words as sacred. Often stimulating and...
His ruminations on U.S. Soviet relationships in the chapter on Khruschev and Brezhnev, for example, are moderate if self-congratulatory in their defense of detente. Nixon only predictably lambasts the "superdoves" but also lashes out at the "superhawks," in a not-too-subtle Jab at the strident Reagan approach to...
Mailer's subject matter provides a considerable sociological analysis. His insightful 1957 essay "The White Negro" is a prophetic vision of the hip consciousness that would develop in the next decade. Mailer said that the specter of the atom bomb and the fear of our collective death produced "the American...