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...aimless ambition, futile romance, grotesque distortions of honor, loneliness in a crowd. The play becomes the raucous comedy that Chekhov always insisted it was and hurtles exuberantly toward a triumph of optimism over experience. Among a solid cast, including Jeremy Geidt as the pathetic Chebutykin, three performers achieve fresh insight: Alvin Epstein as a hyperkinetic but somewhat dim Vershinin; Cheryl Giannini as a hard, petulant Masha; and Karen MacDonald as a vulgar, manipulative yet curiously sympathetic Natasha, the sister-in-law who drives the three sisters from their family home...
...horror upon horror on the way: the Holocaust, the Gulag, the carnage of World War II, the postwar purges in Eastern Europe, the failed 1956 Hungarian uprising. The literature documenting the inhumanity of the age is vast. Yet Konrád's masterly new novel offers fresh insight into the cruel stratagems of totalitarian rule...
...maverick tendencies and keen political insight, McCall was best known as a founder of the environmentalist movement. Even in his dying months, he campaigned vociferously for legislation to save the environment, leading a battle against a November ballot measure that would have ended the land use planning policies he created in Oregon...
...last of the great Nixonian themes and as good a summary as any of his rambling and superficial analysis. His ruminations on this point like much of the rest of the book, sound straight out of a fourth-grade civics textbook. "Great leaders excite great controversies. If one wants insight into how an individual thinks and feels as an adult, it makes common sense that his family background and early years will often provide a clue. "The successful leader must know when to light and when to retreat, when to be silent and when to compromise, when to speak...
...THOUGH LEADERS fails in its primary task of providing insight into many of the world's leading actors, it does give an engrossing glimpse into a fertile, though dangerous, mind. For observers of a President way out of touch with the complexities of his office and wallowing in stagnant ideology, Nixon's intellectual abilities and grasp of world politics sounds frighteningly refreshing--or at least provocative...