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...Rotten Apples...
...continent. Soon the State Department's Dean Acheson was pushing the decision to aid Greece and Turkey against Communist subversion as part of the Truman Doctrine. U.S. failure to combat Communism there, he proclaimed, could "open three continents to Soviet penetration?like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe...
...deficiency in the novel it lies in our lack of preparation for BZ's confession of fellowship with Maria. To credit it to the hypocrisy-shattering side-effects of his homosexuality is not enough. Lord knows, in Hollywood, where homosexuality seems just another building block in the whole rotten institution, the posturing that goes into both concealing and flaunting homosexual tastes is just as appalling as all the other pretenses with which the town is infected. But then the novel is Maria's story, and that alone would prevent us from understanding more...
...deficiency in the novel it lies in our lack of preparation for BZ's confession of fellowship with Maria. To credit it to the hypocrisy-shattering side-effects of his homosexuality is not enough. Lord knows, in Hollywood, where homosexuality seems just another building block in the whole rotten institution, the posturing that goes into both concealing and flaunting homosexual tastes is just as appalling as all the other pretenses with which the town is infected. But then the novel is Maria's story, and that alone would prevent us from understanding more...
...great majority find the present state of society quite deficient," he said, adding, "They go further, many of them, and say the world is rotten...