Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief-are not merely questioning U.S. policy in Viet Nam and probing for the causes of failure, but are convinced at heart that the U.S. course is wrong. Whatever else it may be, West's novel is clearly a celebration of the dead Diem, and a political tract reflecting a strong viewpoint...
...tract, the novel's message is that U.S. connivance at the ousting and murder of Diem was immoral, unwise, and possibly fatal to all further hope of saving South Viet Nam for the West. All these points are certainly arguable and may well even be true. But West does not argue them. The crippling difficulty with the book is that it assumes what it pretends to prove, offering the illusion but not the substance of illumination...
Long Musing. The surrogate Shaw then wrote The Troubled Air, a weakly novelized tract about witch hunting in broadcasting, and two ladies' novels, Lucy Crown and Two Weeks in Another Town. The present novel appears five years after Two Weeks in Another Town. The wait was worthwhile; it is only the novel that...
...aged so noticeably that one motorist splashes right by her to pick up a greener jade. The scene is played to perfection but to no avail. Made in 1960, Love is both dubbed (Italian for French) and flubbed. Director Antonio Pietrangeli squanders several major talents on a saccharine social tract in which the line between solving problems and pandering to them remains handily blurred...
...decorative to the Western eye. Japanese art is also insistently narrative, copiously illustrative in content. With its scenes of battles and civil war, of palaces looted and burning, of the sea and bustling daily life, art in Japan has served many of the functions of chronicle, comic book, religious tract and daily newspaper. By a skillful selection of paintings and prints. Editor Bradley Smith has managed to tell the tumultuous history of the nation almost entirely through its art, with only the essential minimum of supporting text. The result is also a sweeping survey of the art itself...