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WHICH BRINGS us to this latest book by James Dickey, Dickey, after spending years as a good but relatively unknown poet, wrote the best-selling novel Deliverance and was promptly inserted into the Machine. Once you are there, any drop mush that egests from your mental driftings is considered a literary event. And that is exactly what the journal part of this book is: drop mush. It is touching in a way, though, because what it mainly records is the mindless trivia imposed on the life of any American writer. Most of it consists in literary laundry lists (Should...
...slow of wit, and lag far behind the audience in solving the transparent mystery. But no matter. Time makes this hokum endearing. Director Andre de Toth comes up with several chilling images-for instance, the faces of the wax effigies being put to flame and melting into mush-and keeps the action moving briskly along its hopelessly illogical course...
...need to disrupt nature. "We can have quality of life and economic growth." The parlor liberals have forgotten that jobs are important, he insists. He studies a lot, squirreling away facts. "Some of these guys go up the hill and down the hill," he says. "They come out with mush." Not Scoop Jackson, paper carrier, sawmill hand, law-and-order commencement orator...
...second virtue is that a reader with patience enough to mush through the swampy parts of Geismar's argument will find modest patches of solid ground. The author is right in stating that Twain is too little known and understood as a critic of U.S. society, and that the harshly satirical writing of his later years, despite recent notice, is still widely unread. Mainly in the past decade, critics have been pointing out the same thing. But for most fond readers, Twain remains a humorist and pastoral novelist...
...before the election. Then, provided wind currents do not carry the voting kits across the Bering Strait into Soviet territory or the caribou migrations have not lured voters away from their precincts, the hard part begins. Eskimos in the bush view their ballot as important, and paddle boats and mush dogsleds many miles to reach the polls. Results are relayed by radio, but transmissions are sometimes interrupted by atmospheric interference from the Northern Lights. The election supervisor in Nome has yet to be excited by the problems voters faced on Nov. 3. She is still waiting to hear about...