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There is no logical point at which to begin an analysis of what went wrong with I Come as a Thief. The reader is left with the vivid impression that Auchincloss forgot why he called his characters together in the first place, and was too embarrassed to ask them to disband. ·JohnSkow
...been shamed into rowing submission at the XIX Olympied. Harry Parker remembered. He had been there, Livingston. Hobbs. Livingston. They remembered too. They had been a part of the 1968 disgrace. To them the memory of coming in an embarassing sixth behind the East Germans was all too vivid. Munich was their second shot to redeem themselves. Munich was possibly their last shot...
Seidensticker is also the most level-headed to Bo's cohorts, a fact which causes only more puzzlement. In Seidensticker, though. Mills has established a vivid character, one full of life and subject to life's pitfalls and successes. He is the best figure in the book. Others point up different facets of emotion, but none so fully and precisely as Seidensticker...
Darwin was a male chauvinist; modern theories of evolution are speculative and sexist, and treat women as mere "satellites" of men. That, simply stated, is the opinion of Author Elaine Morgan. Armed with a vivid imagination and a healthy supply of female chauvinism, she has developed a theory that is even more speculative and sexist than those she decries. In The Descent of Woman (Stein & Day; $7.95), Author Morgan proposes that many of mankind's current physical and behavioral characteristics developed during a period when prehominid apes spent much of their time on sandy shores and in neck-high...
Before the New Journalism had been invented as a phrase. Wilson was one of its most accomplished practitioners. In his reportage and in his travel books, Wilson proved himself as vivid and dramatic a writer as any novelist while also demonstrating that literature need not shrink from confronting social crises. Later, when Wilson turned to autobiographical essays as a fresh way of exploring the meanings of American life, he did so with a dignity and thoroughness that would put present-day first-person confessionalists to shame...