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...paperbacks, priced out of the hardcover market where costs are soaring 12 to 14 per cent annually. Many publishers are introducing a larger number of books as paperbacks to reduce costs. However, instead of producing a wide range of books, the paperback boom seems to be leading to a surfeit of books about dead and/or fat cats...
Given this surfeit, can there be room for yet another word on the unspeakable, yet another theory about the incomprehensible? The answer, as always, depends upon the speaker. In The Terrible Secret (Little, Brown; 262 pages; $12.95) the man in the witness stand is necessary and impeccable. At the beginning of his phosphorescent volume, Historian Walter Laqueur quotes a war correspondent in 1945: "It is my duty to describe something beyond the imagination of mankind." That something was the archipelago of Europe's death camps, where Nazi virulence reached its terminals: the medical experiment, the gas chamber...
...many people, the war has brought unemployment and a surfeit of idle time. Most schools have been closed, and children are playing in the streets. Many construction projects and factories have been shut down, and men have been mobilized for the front. The Daura oil refinery on the outskirts of Baghdad, a potential target of Iranian fighters, has been closed down as a safety precaution. Along the palm-lined avenues, men sit in cafés and restaurants much of the day, sipping tea and exchanging the latest rumors about the war. Although gasoline is scarce, there appear...
...records has got completely out of hand in the 20th century. Merely keeping track of records requires the toil of a considerable industry and the regular publication of hundreds of thick books with fine print. Scores of thousands of new records are claimed every year. There would be a surfeit even if the world of sports did not chip in its promiscuous confetti of records...
...gingerly French attitude toward the Soviets raises a larger question. In a sharply worded critique of French foreign policy in the June issue of Harper's, Historian Walter Laqueur charges that "France suffers not so much from a surfeit of nationalism as from a lack of faith, or a land of defeatism trying to masquerade as an unemotional strategy." Laqueur concedes that "there is a Gaullist tradition in modern French history, but there is also the heritage of Vichy, and it is not at all certain that the Gaullist tradition has prevailed of late. Contemporary appeasement has many guises...