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Illusory Value. The SEC investigators were disturbed most that the market's safeguards for small investors seem inadequate and that its devices for moderating market swings often sharpen them instead...
Author Price writes just well enough to sharpen the reader's disappointment that he does not write better. The love affair is a fleshy banality, and Price's examination of the interrogator at work falls far short of Koestler's hard clarity. The best of the book shows the British army, all aclank with methodical, motorized idiocy, snark hunting after terrorists in the villages of Cyprus. Price's half-developed central idea leads disturbingly to the suspicion that if civilization does come to a halt, the last moving parts will have been not the generals...
...that Oxford undergraduates are lazy and tutorials inadequate, one must remember that the initiative to work is left at Oxford to the individual student, who can glean a very clear idea of what he is expected to study by reading old examination papers. Tutorials play a secondary role: to sharpen one's self-critical faculty. Lectures and classes are there as a dietary supplement and as comic relief...
...reflects a mind that has obviously sucked in and organized everything published on European integration, N.A.T.O. defense, U.s. trade and tariffs, and de Gaulle's foreign policy; he has squeezed his conclusions into lucid categories and characteristically spread a thin ironic net over them, which serves to heighten and sharpen his discussion. It is amusing and rewarding, as the editors no doubt mean it to be, to see Hoffmann's thoroughness and detachment showing up the other contributors. "American pronouncements and desiderata are afflicted with a kind of cosmic faith in easy harmony," he writes of U.S. reactions...
...fleeing in panic from the terrors of the dark forests and the strange, hairy creatures whom they had, all unwittingly, already exterminated for all history. One of them works on a piece of ivory, grinding it to a point with a stone, and wonders why he bothers: "Who would sharpen a point against the darkness of the world?" he thinks...