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...passes over distasteful episodes. In the book by Robert Crichton an American lands in the village after jumping from Odessa Darling, a B-24. He jumps out of disgust at the bombing of a village of civilians by the pilot of Odessa Darling, who attacks in order to get rid of his bombs before returning to base. Perhaps Kramer thought this episode would ruin our fun by reminding us of Vietnam. I think it is vital to giving the book its depth. Kramer leaves out another of the book's bombing scenes, in which a dozen people in Santa Vittoria...
...more militant civil rights group, hoping that racial justice can be secured through the political channels. But disillusioned and consumed with rage after the youth's killing, Browning realizes that the political channels are ultimately only for those who hold power, and that an oppressed people can rid themselves of their oppression only through violence...
...sold out, turning bourgeois in its concern for consumer goods and comforts rather than self-sacrifice and struggle. His antidote, the prescription of an aging revolutionary romantic, was the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Like the Great Leap, it was a quixotic undertaking, one that was intended not only to rid him of rivals like Liu and break up the fossilized party and state bureaucracy, but also to radicalize China and revitalize its revolutionary ardor...
...that, Figueroa decided that it was time to get rid of the meddlesome may or. When Salto walked into his city hall office at high noon one day three weeks ago, he was greeted by a delegation from Viedma: Figueroa's Un dersecretary of Government, Provincial Police Chief Antonio Aller and a no tary public who, Salto was told, had just been sworn in as the new mayor...
...puritans are not got rid of that easily. Miss Drabble has composed her dazzling and anguished novel as a "schizoid third-person dialogue," with alternating sections written as "I" and as "she." "She" is mostly the girl who dares to. "I" is Freud's good old superego, self-recriminating, doing society's work even when society itself has lost its enthusiasm to play enforcer. It is the "I" that has the last word. The closing sentence of the novel reads significantly: "I prefer to suffer, I think...