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...philosophy. The congressman tells Cavanaugh "we can't afford to spend the next three years discussing whether Nixon called Kleindeinst a cocksucker," and much of this book is on the same trivial level. Higgins says his job as novelist is to set down the factors and let the reader interpret--Higgins the journalist and lawyer interprets enough, he says. But the facts--as conversation--are hardly enough, any more than undisclosed White House tapes could suggest the full horror of the Indochina war. Apolitical James Joyce thought the artist should remain offstage, cleaning his fingernails. Higgins seems to want...
...their potential troubles with the U.S., Israeli officials seem to be pinning their hopes on the U.S. Congress. "It is our view," declared an aide to Premier Rabin, "that Congress will not let the President get away with punitive action against Israel." The Israelis claim that radical Arabs would interpret any reduction in U.S. aid as a sign of American weakness and a justification of their intransigent attitude toward the Jewish state. Jerusalem further insists that a strong Israel increases U.S. leverage in the Middle East...
...bizarre journey has all the qualities of fin-de-siècle romance. It might have been told as a novel, a pageant-even as psychohistory. Instead, Israeli Journalist Amos Elon has chosen a method of slow accretion, scrupulously piling up dates and incidents, scarcely daring to speculate or interpret. The style is out of keeping with its subject. But Herzl is too powerful, too messianic to be quelled by mere facts. On the manuscript, the man is his own illumination...
Logan said that during the current 60-day comment period on the new law granting students access to their school files HEW will set guidelines to "interpret...
...universities and colleges with science fiction. He is disdainful of formal literary criticism, claiming it has led to a strain of obscurity in fiction in the United States. The critics, academic mandarins in Bretnor's terms, have advanced the concepts of obscurity so that they alone could interpret fiction and poetry, and in turn fatten their paychecks with their reviews. Through the critics, Bretnor contends. American poetry became "formless, unreadable and unintelligible," and the short story was "devitalized into the non-story." With science fiction reaching the college campuses, Bretnor writes...