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...This book is, I hope, a historical work, not a tract. After all, to write about woman, it is not necessary to be a woman, merely to have a sense of justice and sympathy; these qualities are not, or should not be the prerogative...
HOSPITALIZED. George Wallace, 65, Alabama Governor who has been confined to a wheelchair since an assassination attempt in 1972; for treatment of a chronic urinary-tract infection, an ailment common among paraplegics; in University Hospital in Birmingham...
Until a climax too calculated to stir the emotions, Screenwriter William D Wittliff and Director Richard Pearce navigate a careful, dogged course between tract and treacle. In this near-miss movie Shepard is once again the icon of incorruptibility who refuses to claim the center of a film. Toward the end of Country Shepard's character disappears, with little explanation, in what may be a gentlemanly bow to Jessica Lange, a flinty, landsomely wasted matriarch. Mother ones, meet Ma Joad. -By Richard Corliss...
...ideas safe for students. It is engaged in making students safe for ideas." Finally, the most reasonable people will often have a hard time deciding which communications are worth hearing. For example, even a statement as offensive as the Pi Eta letter may have done more than any learned tract to awaken some readers to the attitudes and prejudices that can underlie what might otherwise seem to be merely "innocent humor" Such insights into one's own inner feelings, even by only a single individual, can represent a gain of considerable value...
...thriller all the ideological baggage that the pockets of a trench coat could handle, namely the message that espionage is a dirty business whose dirt is fairly evenly distributed on both sides. Forsyth was darkly entertaining in The Day of the Jackal, but his new book is tract writing, and its tendentious guff leaves the reader where he started, unwilling to believe and unable to escape. -By John Skow