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...Israel to the Holocaust, which he feels is inextricably tied up in Israel's militarism. Apparently, he spends a lot of time lying on a hill near Yad Vashem and comes eventually to some monumental understanding which appears either unfathomable or meaningless to lesser minds trying to get a peep...
...triggered by just about anything--footsteps, sneezes, running water, sunrise. The one thing these smoke alarms don't seem sensitive to, oddly enough, is fire. One student tells of accidentally failing to open his fireplace flue, seeing his room fill up with smoke, and never hearing a peep out of his detector...
...HANDLES these questions deftly. If, as Aaron Green contends, analysts are voyeurs "at the window watching what's going on in the bedroom, getting very excited, but not jumping into the fray," then Malcolm gives a solid boost to anyone who wants to be a meta-voyeur--someone to peep in on the bedroom and the first voyeur too. She falters only once, rambling through several pages of some sort of amateur Jungian explanation of Freud's motivations for giving a particular patient pseudonym. Except for this humorously obsessional bit of lay analysis, Malcolm has an intelligent authorial presence. Drawing...
That, on the 68th page of Wolfe's airy 143-page volume, is the climax. From then on, it's merely the sad story of how an assertive intellectual vanguard forced the wretched glass boxes on corporations and federal agencies, which offered nary a peep of protest. Wolfe's best point--his most incisive, yet also the most obvious--is that this "worker" housing repelled any workers who had to live in it. They hated the International "vision of highrise hives of steel, glass, and concrete separated by open spaces of green lawn." The people tried anything to inject some...
...water last March when he told an interviewer that detente was dead and that a war between the superpowers was inevitable if the Soviet Union didn't peacefully change its system. The White House and State Department quickly slapped his wrists, and there hasn't been a (public) peep from Pipes since. Pipes first burst into public view in 1976 when he headed Team B--a conservative team of defense specialists who concluded that the Soviet Union was in the midst of a military build-up undetected by American intelligence estimates...