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...refusal of both Solzhenitsyn and the Soviet bureaucracy to help Burg and Feifer closed the major sources of information about their man. The Soviet government must possess an encyclopedic knowledge of a writer it has kept under intermittent KGB surveillance since he was a Red Army Officer in the Second World War. Solzhenitsyn, a scrupulously honest writer who would obviously be the most knowledgeable source, refused, according to Feifer and Burg, to have anything to do with a biography. His position, they claimed, is that an author of autobiographical fiction (The Cancer Ward and The First Circle) need not expose...
...Department hire a first rate Afro-American historian. He explained that "it has not been possible to do so largely, I think, because such people as one may have had in mind to fill such posts with distinction are often seen as threats and, in any case, may not possess the requisite black-nationalist ideology--breathing fire and pleading commiseration...
...appear patterned to us our pattern seems extraordinary only because it is the pattern with which we live. It is no more special or less probably than any other constellation of phenomena. Control over our ability to act within such a design is entirely in our hands--if we possess the strength to see it there...
...delivering 120 new trailers a day, and is still far behind the demand. But the majority of Wilkes-Barre citizens hope one day to repair or rebuild their own houses. Many Wyoming Valley residents are of Polish and Slovak stock. Their hearts are in their homes; to possess a home is to possess everything. And they are the core of the movement to bring the valley back...
Without at least a mail-order course in triadic dialectics, it is best to forgo analysis of Tournier's synthesis. Enough said that it has much to do with his notion that symbols have lives of their own and possess a diabolical potential. Yet in The Ogre, in contrast with his last book, Friday, Tournier seems incapable of expressing an idea without sacrificing art to pedagogy. As an old East Prussian aristocrat says just before the Russians do a Götterdammerung on his castle, "When the symbol devours the thing symbolized, when the cross-bearer becomes the crucified...