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...take any stupidity you like and say, there, that's a liberal for you. Word covers simply everything." --Wilfrid Sheed, Office Politics...
...Wilfrid Sheed, 42, writer
Speak of the devil, and up pops John Updike. In an introduction to a new anthology called Soundings in Satanism (Sheed & Ward; $6.95), Updike-a childhood Lutheran who became a Congregationalist-even turns into something of a devil's advocate. Speaking disapprovingly of the widespread disbelief in God's opponent, the novelist observes: "We have become, in our Protestantism, more virtuous than the myths that taught us virtue; we judge them barbaric. We resist the bloody legalities of the Redemption; we face Judgment Day, in our hearts, much as young radicals face the mundane courts-convinced that acquittal...
...People Will Always Be Kind, Sheed...
...been gossipy adventure stories with no involvement in either the theoretical or the gut issues of politics. It is no longer possible -- as it was in the heyday of Drury, Burdick, Uris, and Knebel -- to write such political escapism. For the political novel to become valuable, as writers like Sheed so clearly desire, it must live up to its own name by intensifying its political content...