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...autobiography has done its job, and the reader has seen a man intelligent and selfabsorbed, better at action than ideas, somewhat rueful and, by his own testimony, a reasonably decent fellow. The inclination is to accept the judgment. - John Skow...
...like a modern corporation president as seen by a tame biographer on the company payroll. On balance, however, her choice of Coucy is a good one. Her choice of the 14th century is brilliant, and her portrait of the period is exciting, artful and solidly based in scholarship. - John Skow...
...John Skow, you say that Dick Yates' new novel A Good School [Aug. 21] is first-rate, acute and impeccable and then slap him down somewhat scornfully at the end. You say his work comes close to fear, whatever that's supposed to say as a literary evaluation. I would have thought you'd applaud that cautionary nerve in Yates when we have so many books so bravely fearless and forgotten. Fear is a quality to be admired in a writer of Yates' integrity. If he has fear, how can the rest of us afford...
...which Dick Button, playing a TV color babbler, describes the moves of a Japanese wrestler in terms of figure skating, the only sport his character knows anything about. This is an accurate satire of TV sports reporting, but nothing else in the film has any spark whatsoever. - John Skow...
...reader senses an insufficiency, however. Staring unflinchingly at bad nerves and loneliness is admirable, but fearing to look at any other sort of human condition is not, and the cautiousness of Yates' writing comes very close to fear. - John Skow...