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Looking Backward. McCarthy's passivity, Larner came to suspect, was hard to distinguish "from a fear of looking bad. In this he was not unlike certain athletes who would rather lose than go all-out to win." But beyond that, there seems in retrospect a certain ascetic bleakness in the candidate's character, and a perverse satisfaction in disappointing the expectations of others. McCarthy seemed to cherish his acedia, his spiritual Oblomovism. He emerges from these pages as an almost hermetically private man who one day-defying all logic and expectation-challenged the President and enlisted a tremendous...
...Greek Tragedy, by Constantine Tsoucalas. This book is not a straight historical narrative of Greece, but adopts a meaningful perspective by selecting and emphasizing certain periods and events since 1821 with a view to explaining the military coup of April 21, 1967. After reading this book the coup in retrospect is not at all surprising, but is rather the inevitable outcome of the mutual interests of the Army, the Palace, big business, and the United States...
Savage Skepticism. Some of the best are listed above. The Autobiography is his will and testament. The speeches and The Man and His Times, a gathering of recollections by people who knew Malcolm X, add subtlety and substance to it. Read in retrospect, they reveal Malcolm X as the most fascinating, convincing and, in some ways, the most measured speaker and thinker that the black militant movement has yet produced...
...whites, collectively and historically, have been and still are a disaster for blacks. He refused to be grateful for empty favors. "Fm not going to sit at your table," he once said, "and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner." In retrospect, what seems most remarkable was the range of his intellectual change and growth. The final phase of that growth-marked by his separation from the Black Muslim movement and the founding of the Organization of Afro-American Unity-had only begun when he was shot down. Yet his last plan to start...
...thoughts to Renoir and his velvety impressions of summer days and the sparkling glint of light on the river's water. Later, her voice grew mellow and wise as she sang "the colors of my father's dreams faded" and the audience could look back with her in knowing retrospect, as Gene Taylor drew his bow sadly across the strings of his bass, and Miss Collins finalized her memories, skillfully plucking out tender notes on her 12-string guitar...