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Gore Vidal's novels, plays and essays can be divided roughly into three areas of animosity. The first is the author's belief that Western civilization erred when it abandoned pagan humanism for the stern, heterosexual authority of the Judaeo-Christian patriarchy. See Julian, his 1964 novel about the apostate nephew of Constantino the Great. The second area that draws Vidal's scorn is American politics, which he dramatizes as a circus of opportunism and hypocrisy. See The Best Man; Washington, D.C.; Burr. The most freewheeling disdain is directed at popular culture, macho sexuality and social pretensions...
Hitler's odious power to spellbind an audience has wreaked havoc once again in the furor over the fake diaries [May 16]. Even in death, Hitler has destroyed the reputation and credibility of gullible historians and editors, most notably those at the magazine Stern. All it took was a forger for the Fűhrer to bask in the limelight yet another time. Had the diaries proved authentic, then collectors would have been at one another's throats to own the journals of a man who caused such worldwide suffering...
...Conservative Party headquarters; twice during the campaign she has publicly squelched Francis Pym, her Foreign Secretary. Pym's first misstep was to declare on television that he was willing to discuss the future of the Falkland Islands if Argentina drops its belligerence. Thatcher immediately interrupted him with the stern correction, "but not sovereignty, not sovereignty." Pym's second mistake was to note, again on TV, that "landslides on the whole do not produce successful governments." Snapped Thatcher: "I think I can handle a landslide all right...
...Stern's pell-mell pursuit of the Hitler "scoop" was not resoundingly justified at newsstands. The first diaries issue, April 25, though promoted as containing some of the most titillating items, sold 2 million copies, about 300,000 more than usual...
...fault, my grievous fault). He explained the management's collective lapse of judgment as the product of "a bunker mentality." The magazine's renewed coverage of an episode that Nannen had hoped to forget was in fact forced by embittered employees, who for six days symbolically occupied Stern's editorial offices. The protest compelled Nannen to drop a newly named co-editor from outside the magazine, Business Journalist Johannes Gross, whom staffers labeled too conservative, and to pledge that the magazine would continue in a "progressive-liberal" (actually, leftwing) tradition of journalism. Other publications hailed...