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...important ends manage to stay untied. But along the way, Farmer offers his audience a wide-screed adventure that never fails to provoke, amuse and educate. Students of religion will find an impressive comprehension of the Judaic, Christian and Islamic ideas of the after life. History buffs should be diverted by the author's ability to mix notables, from Baron von Richthofen to U.S. Grant, like grains of sand in an hourglass. The greatest beneficiaries should be science fiction fans. For too long they have filled their shelves with charmless fantasies and technical jargon that talks to itself...
...equal space. Nixon would break down and reveal his paranoia. So Halberstam completely distorts the famous "you won't have Nixon to kick around any more" press conference after Nixon lost that race. Quoting only one Nixon sentence, Halberstam claims that Nixon completely lost control and launched into a screed against the press. Aha! the reader is supposed to say, the L.A. Times was the heart of darkness behind Agnew, the secret bombings of Cambodia, Watergate, the tapes...
...feel of that era. For those who cut their political teeth on venomous demonstrations against the war and Nixon as its perpetuator, there will be little satisfaction in the excerpts' Ziegleresque newspeak. Nixon does not say he was wrong. Neither does he launch into a wild defensive screed of self-justification. Again, he seems to be trying to make everything he did seem ordinary, and even to make the context of his decisions similarly mundane. The mobilization of America's youth against his policies is presented like a police blotter--"In the academic year 1969-70 there were 1800 demonstrations...
Please excuse the little screed about "imperialism." To oppose the CFIA, it is first necessary to reject even the possibility of a successful development, measured in terms of the people of a country, by American investment. It is possible, I will admit, that after continuous massive doses of foreign aid, as in Formosa, an underdeveloped country can experience an increase in per capita income...
...dislodge the fine traditional productions of the classics but complemented them. The first playwright to add the magic was John Osborne, the Angry Young Man, an actor out of work and furiously out of patience with life, the theater, everything. The play was Look Back in Anger, an iconoclastic screed against the suffocating middle-class ethic and the coolly cultivated traditionalism of the Establishment. "When I saw Look Back in Anger" said an ex-pastry cook named Arnold Wesker, "I knew it could happen. I went home and wrote my first play in six weeks." The thunder of Osborne summoned...