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...spirited polemic against various schools of Flaubert criticism. "Louise Colet's Version" is an imaginary reconstruction of the opinions of Louise Colet, to whom Flaubert wrote his greatest love letters, but whose replies are unfortunately lost forever. In "Braithwalie's Dictionary of Accepted Ideas," he indulges in a latter-day variant of Flaubert's favorite sport, bourgeois-bashing. And the penultimate chapter. "Examination Paper," is just that. This is all great fun, scholarship that's playful, clever, and not without a certain profundity to boot...
...strategic concept has an answer to that question, a highly problematic one. The document envisions a "period of transition," starting around 1995, during which both sides would still have their offensive nuclear missiles. Those weapons would be protected by a latter-day version of ABMs called ballistic missile defense, or BMD. If American missiles and command centers were effectively guarded with radar-guided interceptors and death rays that could destroy incoming warheads, the Soviet Union would never be tempted to think that it could disarm and decapitate the U.S. with a pre-emptive strike. In principle, the Soviets could have...
BEFORE WE all breathe easy over escaping 1984 without visits to latter-day Room 101's or the introduction of synthetic gin, perhaps we ought to take just one more look at the year that was. Overall, as everyone knows, was writing about Stalinism and its evils, which we in the U.S. and others around the world--including in the Soviet Union--have managed to escape so far. But, as the author told friends and critics repeatedly, the book is also about the possible deterioration of Christian republics. One of Orwell's consumptive predictions, given to the noted critic William...
TIME AND time again, Cuomo touches on the key issues of latter-day liberalism--busing, quotas, the death penalty, race relations, labor relations--only to leave the reader grasping for straws. Recounting a February 21, 1981 speech to a Glen Oaks Jewish group, Cuomo writes...
...interior, however, could be in New York City's Trump Tower, Chicago's Water Tower Place, Houston's Galleria or any of several other vacuously luxuriant shopping centers that seem designed for a latter-day Marie Antoinette. Here the architects became tacky in an orgy of salmon-colored tile and Spanish marble, brass and rosewood, fountains and vegetation and, naturally, a waterfall sculpture. Copley Place's two-level shopping mall is a catalogue of high-priced interior-decorator clich...