Word: meaningful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: The political strength of Senator Eugene McCarthy is diluted by the fact that his protests about the Viet Nam war are almost entirely based on the "immorality" of this conflict. I, too, feel that the war should be ended, but I also feel that the Senator, as a presidential...
Sir: Isn't it strange that the same issue of TIME that discusses the possible death of the organized church [April 12] should memorialize a black preacher who changed a nation from a thousand pulpits? The life and death of Martin Luther King would prove more than enough to...
Horrid Little Man. Updike possesses uneven skill as a manipulator or impersonator of characters. For more than half the book it is virtually impossible tell the characters apart or to remember who is sleeping with whom except by drawing a chart. (The generous explanation is that this is not due...
And then, at times, Updike's virtuosity leads to excess that smothers meaning and clogs the reader's senses as when he writes of "the shallow amber depths where the lemon slice like an embryo swam." That is a bowl of soup.
ONCE AGAIN, the villain is UCLA. They breed television shows out there. With all the equipment to play with, it stands to reason some one would have a feeling for dissolves or a zoom lens, or just a cut with some meaning. But with one exception, they don't, and...