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John Simon is not appreciated by most writers of book, theater and movie chat because he is what they only pretend to be: a critic. Like earlier critics with a well-defined aesthetic point of view, Simon writes lucid and scholarly essays-works of art in themselves...
...events in the Eastern Mediterranean in 1974 add up to an episode that the former Secretary would rather not remember. Stern's lucid and convincing treatment guarantees that the world will not forget it. -Strobe Talbott
...Swaan is an impeccable photographer, a lucid writer and a dedicated medievalist. In The Late Middle Ages (Cornell University Press; 232 pages; $27.50) he proposes that the period from 1350 to the Renaissance in Northern Europe and the Iberian peninsula produced a "pyrotechnic blaze of glory" in art and architecture. The illustrations of Gothic spires and gargoyles, flying buttresses and Books of Hours, tombs and tapestries and town halls make the point spectacularly; the text puts it all into historical perspective. There are only 16 color plates, including a breathtaking interior of King's College Chapel in Cambridge...
This book is a somewhat patronizing but generally fair examination of a topic that notably agitates otherwise calm people. It would certainly help the popular reputation of traditional therapists if they presented their findings in such a lucid fashion as the author of Psychobabble. Rosen quotes Gore Vidal that "most of our writers tend to be recorders," yet he himself could never be mistaken for one of that dreary band. Unlike the psychobabblers he decries, he doesn't practice what Jacoby called (and Rosen recalled) "the monotonous discovery of common sense." Instead, he reminds us, skeptically but never petuiantly, that...
...present, it is clear that Paul feels strong enough to stay on the job - though he might decide eventually to step down if his health deteriorates. He remains lucid and works at his desk every day, but the obvious agonies of his arthritis are forcing him to drastically reduce private audiences...