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...that psychological insight and moral judgment are mutually exclusive. John le Carre is extraordinarily skillful at showing the psychological affinity between the British master spy Smiley and his KGB nemesis Karla. But in the end, there is no mistaking Le Carre's view of the worthiness of their respective enterprises. One can understand and still judge, so long as one is not tempted to understand everything...
Chester Hickle came back in and offered a stranger a stick and a knife, saying whittling keeps you calm and keeps you out of trouble. The stranger had been reading the newspaper, the Marshall Mountain Wave. Correspondent Sybel Smiley, writing the news from Nubbin Hill, had noted that "we have some very muddy roads again. There isn't any bottom to anywhere now. The sun is trying to shine some, which looks good." Correspondent Rosie Ragland from over at Red Oak reported that "Pearl Davis and I purchased 15 hens from Mary Redman Saturday night." For the record, Ragland...
...Africans themselves. "What kind of people are we?" asks one African leader. "Are we not forced to admit that our continent lives in absolute poverty?" Such questions underscore a painful truth. "The years of freedom have mounted up, mocking the plausibility of the excuses for failure," British journalist Ian Smiley wrote in the Atlantic Monthly. "Africa is back where it was 50 years...
...leaden branches slap our faces. Based on the superb spy thriller by Martin Cruz Smith, this film hypnotizes us with its briskly paced plot, providing a whirl-wind tour of Moscow, snow-covered country estates, and Russian espionage organizations. The novel Gorky Park rivals John Le Carre's Smiley's People and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with a systematic, psychological unravelling of a bizarre mystery. Like Robert Ludlum's intricate tales, including Parsifal Mosaic, each minute the hero faces some new opposition to his quest for eclipsing the top-level "mole." This movie captures the cold tenseness central to Smith...
...Kurtz is the most admirable and sympathetic character in the novel, and Le Carre may not be done with him: "I've thought of him as likely to be the hero of more books, but the chances, as far as I know at the moment, are nil." George Smiley exists in a similar limbo. Says the author: "We are simply not on terms at the moment. He's hung up his boots." One of the problems, paradoxically, between Le Carre and his character is the television exposure that Smiley received in adaptations of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier...