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...hopes to step out from Brezhnev's shadow, Yuri Andropov will have to re-make the Communist Party in his own image. A key for the new General Secretary will be to place his own people at the top of the tentacular bureaucracy that carries out the will of the Kremlin leadership. Long excluded from the corridors of power during the Brezhnev era, a generation of party officials in their 40s and 50s will be carefully watching whom Andropov is able to put in important posts in the coming weeks and months. These choices will affect not only Andropov...
Boschesque crustaceans of his hermetic imagination to caress the tentacular algae of his subaqueous and electrified impudicity or the nacreous and colubrine doves of a psychosomatic idealism to circle in simmering syndromes the facades of a palladian narcissism." Yet he can go from there to a superb review of William Faulkner's latest novel and the fairest, most graceful estimate yet of Fellow Critic Van Wyck Brooks's work. Sometimes his literary snobbishness leads Wilson into his most readable and most amusing writing. "Ambushing a Best-Seller" will make readers of the trashier kinds of historical novels blush...