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...turns out, that hypothesis was mostly hyperbole, the outgrowth, perhaps, of fantasies spun by helpless Russians who in fact could scarcely utter a whisper against the system of mass police terror. Gulag HI marks a judicious turnabout: "The Communist regime has not been overthrown in sixty years, not because there has not been any struggle against it from inside, not because people docilely surrendered to it, but because it is inhumanly strong, in a way as yet unimaginable to the West...
With Geronimo Rex (1972), Barry Hannah emerged as a first novelist with an innate gift for gab. His mockepic saga of growing up wacky during the '50s and '60s hummed down the groove of black humor but spun with Southern English. Hannah revealed an ear for the palaver that still goes on around Confederate monuments, as well as for the eloquent cadences of Faulkner and Joyce...
...typing until he discovered dictation. Thereafter he kept several secretaries, including three sisters named Walter, frantically busy. He thought of his mysteries as sets of components, so he rigged up a gizmo called a "plot wheel," a device with spokes radiating from the center indicating characters, situations, complications. He spun his wheel until there were points where spokes collided. Presto: another book...
...signs of fatigue. As a result, he looked more rested and relaxed than in some weeks, and he was able carefully to moderate his singsong Southern cadence and stop stepping on his punch lines. In rehearsal the speech had taken barely 30 minutes to deliver; before national television it spun on for 47 minutes- primarily because he was interrupted with applause 43 times...
...most important things that happened in 1977 may not have been in an Executive order or a law passed by Congress or an idea spoken by Jimmy Carter. It may have been the extraordinary web of civilized human relationships spun among the men and women of Washington and world power almost in spite of themselves...