Word: reader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This episode ends happily, and so do all of Frazier's stories. The reader winds up laughing and knowing a great deal about subjects -- bears in northwestern Montana, a pair of madcap Soviet emigre artists -- that most people can live without. The author's loopy laziness is a pose; he works carefully and hard to make everything look like...
Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko weighs in with a theatrical new collection. -- John Hersey lures the reader with a book on bluefishing...
...reader is offered no conclusion other than an ethics of "undecidability." Instead, one keeps alive the complexities of the issue in the understanding that the real crime is killing debate...
...behind the befuddled pose lurked one of Washington's shrewdest and most agile minds -- an avid reader with a remarkable memory. Casey's skills at deception, in fact, helped him launch his career with the secretive Office of Strategic Services in World War II (he planted spies in Nazi-occupied Europe) and finally brought him his last and highest post, as a CIA director who particularly favored covert operations...
...Koblitz has observed, "Huntington never bothers to inform the reader in what sense these are equations." How does Huntington measure "instability," "social frustration," "social mobilization?" Does he have a social frustration meter? Abbreviating the equations in the form A/B=C, C/D=E, E/F=G, are we allowed seventh grade algebra to conclude that A=BC=BDE=BDFG, i.e., that "social mobilization is equal to economic development times mobility opportunities times political institutionalization times political instability"? And Koblitz remarks: "Huntington's use of equations produces effects--mystification, intimidation, an impression of precision and profundity..." Huntington fails to define just what these...