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...mockingly confessional style, the essays read like letters from someone you've known for years. She plunges right in with the first piece in the book, "A Few Words About Breasts," which reportedly set off a storm of reaction when it first appeared. In it, Ephron details the lasting trauma she suffered as a result of having grown up flat-chested, apparently more of a problem in the Jane Russell-dominated 50s than in the Twiggy-dominated 60s. After nine pages of breast-related anecdotes, all recounted with an exasperated detatchment that makes them funny rather than embarassing, Ephron finally...
...becomes an extension of the tortured child of Kosinski's indelible first novel, The Painted Bird, and the deracinated hero of his second greatest work, Steps. Like these central characters, Kosinski once fled the hell of war and totalitarianism; like them, he suffered unnamed-and perhaps unnameable-trauma. Cockpit seems to be a refraction of those anguished early years. If it is, then the novel's epigraph need not be from Dostoyevsky but from Auden, whose insight remains the subtext for all acts of vengeance: land the public know What all schoolchildren learn Those to whom evil...
Thus, while the Ec Department underwent its trauma over the Visiting Committee report and the loss of Leontief, the senior faculty voted to appoint Marxist economic historian William H. Lazonick to an assistant professorship in Economics...
...trauma of their arrival, the Vietnamese will probably fare as well in America as past immigrants. They will not have the impact of the 650,000 Cubans who fled from Castro and settled largely-and for the most part successfully-in Miami. They are more likely to scatter throughout the country in the manner of the 38,000 Hungarians who escaped to America after the 1956 revolution was crushed by the Soviets. Like the Cubans and the Hungarians, the Vietnamese are mostly middle-class people who should be able to overcome social obstacles and make a decent living. Says...
This portrait of a sergeant plagued with survival guilt is more a case history of one veteran's psychological trauma and withdrawal symptoms from a war than a theatrical piece...