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This is not fair. To bring a team that the Red Sox trail by two games to Fenway Park when Homer and Hegel need to be pulled from that monstrous pile of unread books is simply not fair...
...Harvard, citadel of real and imagined enemies. But Kearns was too well trained on alien terrain and kept her psychic distance from her overwhelming subject. Imbued with some of the 1960s suspicions of practical politics, she is fair to L.B.J. but unfailingly cool. To her, Johnson is a monstrous amalgam of political good and evil, worthy of meticulous dissection. Her scalpel is cutting, and the wounds inflicted will not be easily healed by later biographers. In her book, Johnson is naked to his enemies as he never was when alive...
Naipaul phrases these questions himself in a passage about Roche, who wrote a book about the South African struggle. "You describe individual things very clearly," a commentator says of Roche's book, but it lacks a general point of view on "the most monstrous kind of white aggression against black people." Roche explains clumsily that he became "very confused" while writing, "swamped by all the people I had to write about, and all the little events which I thought important." He was unable to deal with the larger issues. In the Caribbean crisis, Roche has responded in the same...
Updike, like us all, has his pet bemusements. The most obvious and protracted is sexuality ("the monstrous and gummy organs of sex, which look like wounds"), with particular respect to women...
...unrequited. Though Speer recognizes the Führer's monstrous propensities, he is still able to write, wholly without historical remove: "[He] had the ignorance, the curiosity, the enthusiasm and the temerity of the born dilettante; and along with that, inspiration, imagination, lack of bias...