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...things really are. In truth, they are more of a badge cadge. Michael Korda, Simon & Schuster's editor in chief, has said of the new cop books, "The prime element is that they suggest a simpler world." Exactly so. To keep it that way, the authors rigorously suppress untidy complexity. Mrs. Uhnak's novel ends in a hasty melodramatic knitting of loose strands. Maas' reportage resolutely refuses to go beyond Serpico's own viewpoint. Whittemore is worst of all, portraying his heroes without a fleck of imperfection. They burst into pushers' apartments but somehow never...
...addition, more than half of this year's Nieman group enrolled in a fiction writing seminar taught by Diana Thomson. ("While we don't want to turn our journalists into novelists, many of them can't suppress the itch." Thomson remarked...
Ginsberg's complete openness about his own life as a homosexual has probably helped his poetry in the sense that he's remained very close to the truth. But it's also given him a sensationalist reputation. It's hard sometimes to suppress the feeling that he's trying to do more with his poetry that "surprise by a fine excess...
Three years before his death in 1967, Henry R. Luce, co-founder of Time Inc., commissioned a history of the company. He opened his private files and corporate files and instructed Historian Robert T. Elson "to be candid, truthful and to suppress nothing relevant." Elson, a veteran correspondent and editor for TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE, followed orders. In 1968 he produced the lively and candid Time Inc., The Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise 1923-1941. Elson's second volume, The World of Time Inc., carries the story through the company's more expansive years from Pearl Harbor...
...other words, since social conditions are bad and will probably become worse, the United States must suppress revolt...