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...thing, it is difficult for history, more than once every few centuries, to invent a villain like Hitler and then propel him to such enormous power. The bad guys are rarely so horrible-although this century has been rather richly cast. Normandy in later years became an almost unconscious reply to the pacifist view of war, for Operation Overlord led to the final destruction of a tyranny that was deemed more terrible than war itself...
...major speech last week in Cincinnati, Mondale began sounding less like Hubert Humphrey and more like, well, Gary Hart. With stirring Kennedyesque rhetoric, Mondale intoned, "We must make history, not just watch it. We must invent the future, not just accept it." In the speech he referred to the future, a patented Hart byword, a total of 15 times...
CRITICS, in the guise of defining a new gerue, will often invent a meaningless catchall then watch the rest pounce on it like hungry rats. Phrases--the "Beat Generation, is a famous example--will pass into common usage because they are convenient and recognizable. Rarely will such phrases be questioned or qualified, but often they are used to belittle artists...
...free of lordly constraint to celebrate his grandson's return, and the death of Tarzan's ape "father," at the hands of a panicky civilization, turn the noble savage into a premature existentialist permanent outsider, last seen heading back to the bush, where he will have to invent a life in the borderlands between two communities he can never fully join. Jane (Andie MacDowell) watches him go, awaiting reunion in a sequel one suspects will never...
...everything is a puzzle, and as the protagonist learns so does the reader. But by the first 150 pages of The Aquitaine Progression we know what the conspiracy is; we know what Converse has to do. The other 500 pages seem more an exercise in how well Ludlum can invent traps for Converse and how much we can believe in his paranoid vision of a corrupt world where anyone can be bought and everyone is being watched. The traps Ludlum invents are singularly unoriginal. At one point, Ludlum even has Converse traveling around Europe disguised as a priest...