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...divestiture movement as self-righteous 'Bok-bashers.' It is striking that nowhere in four column feet of text is there any reference to South African conditions nor any mention of the expressed will of the oppressed majority. Kahn's ignorance of these can be the only reason for his myopic analysis...
Bach's music, however, has steadily grown in stature. It has even gone into space aboard Voyager 1 and 2 as an example of the best that human culture has to offer. Yet the contemporary image of Bach is, in its own way, as myopic as that of previous eras. We tend to perceive the cantor of St. Thomas' Church in Leipzig as, above all, an unsmiling, devout Lutheran, who erected cathedrals in sound dedicated to the glory of God. Bach's music, we think, is great because it is good for us. But to consider Bach only...
Washington and Managua are probably too myopic to realize it. In Reaganworld, the only threatsto Central America during the President's tenure have been the Cuban and Soviet proxies ready to eat up our allies; these fears have been played up only because of the Administration's single-minded devotion to force and bluster as the lynchpins of its policy in the region. The Republicans brag that under their government "not one square inch" of territory has been lost to the Commies, but if they pursue their current course, they will more likely end up squandering their rapidly diminishing influence...
...these zealots die in the course of the book, victims of their inability to see beyond their fanatic blinders. Ironically, the only fanatic who lives is the one who can see the least, the myopic reporter who covers the events in Canudos. Judging from the casualty list, the journalist's monomania is the one kind Vargas-Llosa approves...
...valuable message, especially for a continent which has seen more than its share of demagogues and false prophets. But Vargas-Llosa belabors the point. A good adventure story even one with as cogent a message as this one, shouldn't go on for 568 pages. Unlike the myopic reporter who is the novel's hero, the author sees too much. This is evident in the book's last third, where he gives what seems like a minute-by-minute account of the final battle for Canudos. In his previous novel, the brilliant Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Vargas-Llosa showed...