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Golding use of the first-person narrative is adventurous but not entirely successful. There are places in the story where Barclay's joblessness and blindness to certain, considerations appear obtrusively. Barclay is often funny, but often jacks the relish and will that might constitute a more interesting study. At the beginning of the book, Barclay says that "I lived in the simple conviction, I now see, that I could only remain integrated by immorality." If Barelay could have realized this attitude prior to the events the novel (experiencing the idea without the brute force of a revelation), he would...
...kind of statesmanlike undertaking that Presidents relish unveiling in the course of a televised news conference. "I have an important announcement," said Ronald Reagan last week in the East Room of the White House. "In two weeks I will send Vice President Bush to Geneva to present to the 40-nation conference on disarmament a bold American initiative for a comprehensive worldwide ban on chemical weapons." Just in case anyone had missed the larger message, the President added: "This latest initiative reflects my continuing strong commitment to arms control...
...nothing to do with Kevin's sister. Kevin and maureen resort to hiring Billy Snoddy, a working man who was Maureen's only other childhood boyfriend, to play the part of surrogate. Snoddy is a thoroughly creepy character who, after discovering Kevin and Maureen in bed together, can only relish his knowledge and position. He becomes more noxious to Kevin when Maureen learns that her pregnancy was a false alarm...
Opponents called the directive a threat to constitutional rights. Correctly. Nor did top political aides at the White House, who undoubtedly account for more sensitive leaks than lower-level bureaucrats, relish the thought of facing polygraph straps and lifetime censorship. Last week the President backed down, suspending the controversial provisions until a "bipartisan solution" to the problem of safeguarding classified information can be worked out in Congress. Orwell's worries about 1984 apparently failed to take into account that it was an election year...
Mondale professes to relish a fight with the President over campaign promises and special interests. He cites Reagan's 1980 vow to balance the budget as the biggest unkept promise in political history. He charges that Reagan's tax and budget cuts were a sellout to corporations and the wealthy. Mondale ticks off the groups that he supports: the unemployed, workers needing retraining, schoolchildren, anyone who wants clean air and water, the elderly, blacks, Hispanics and women. "If those are special interests," he says, "count me in. I'm proud of every one of them...