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...been so preoccupied with such larger matters as the war in Viet Nam and détente with the Soviet Union and China that it has virtually ignored its neighbors to the south. To many Latin Americans, Washington's policy has seemed more like "malign neglect" than benign neglect; a low profile by the U.S. south of the border meant a low priority for Latin America north...
...page of come-ons--"READ ALL ABOUT IT! What the 'Games Congressmen Play' are--from 'politics of deference' to congressional love and marriage to the secret hideaway offices of the Capitol rulers"--the report exudes sensationalism. The authors rehash the escapades of John Dowdy. Adam Clayton and that "malign genius" Thomas Dodd: they compare companies sending funds through campaign committees to "crooks lugging baskets of dirty money to be washed through legitimate business." Frequently witty--"The ideal staff must be like the ideal hairpiece; effective but unobtrusive"--and often sarcastic--"Congress has sponsored a building boom inspired by the judgment...
...years since the first American advisers died there, Viet Nam had the time to touch some of the deepest national nerves. It had to be so. A young man now old enough to vote cannot remember a time since he learned to read when it was not there?those malign black headlines of Tonkin and Tet and moratorium, of Khe Sanh and presidential abdication and Chicago. It was, in Critic Michael Aden's phrase, "the living-room war." The evening news on television imaged forth the village ignited with a Zippo lighter, the director of South Viet Nam's police...
...book, Friday, Tournier seems incapable of expressing an idea without sacrificing art to pedagogy. As an old East Prussian aristocrat says just before the Russians do a Götterdammerung on his castle, "When the symbol devours the thing symbolized, when the cross-bearer becomes the crucified, when a malign inversion overthrows phoria, then the end of the world is at hand...
...river, nature itself, is seen as a malign force. At first, shooting some easy rapids gives the men a small sense of triumph. "We beat it, we beat it, didn't we?" Ed shouts. Lewis knows better. "You don't beat it," he says evenly. "You don't beat this river." Next day, the river separates the men for a time. Ed and Bobby go ashore and are set upon by two mountaineers. Ed is tied to a tree, Bobby sodomized at gunpoint. They are only saved from further humiliation by the arrival of Lewis, who kills...