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However, despite certain flaws--the play's excessive three-hour length, its occasionally cloying cuteness and sententiousness--Beginner's Luck pulls through very well. The play is well-written, for the most part, and the acting leaves little to be desired...
...same chance to change history, if only in a small way. Students in Soc Sci 174 must write a 15-page memorandum to someone in a position to do something constructive about an international conflict, telling that person what he or she can do immediately to help the situation. Well-written memorandums are actually sent off to their targets, with a cover letter from Fisher...
...marriage and family life over the past 50 years. The greatest part of his book is devoted to explicating the theories of sociologists, anthropologists and psychologists. The general outlines of the rise and fall of anthropological evolutionary theories of the family and the empirical sociology of urbanization are clear, well-written and illustrated with historical examples. But the chapter on the development of personality theory and the psychoanalytic controversies of the '30s and '40s is far less transparent to the uninitiated. Occasionally, Lasch loses the thread of his argument as set out in the early chapters; at times he fails...
With Nixon is well-argued and well-written, much as one would expect from a former presidential speechwriter. But ultimately, Price's arguments, however earnestly he believes them, are less than convincing, because the weakness of his case leads Price to ignore the major issues involved in Nixon's downfall. Too often, Price is reduced to touting what he sees as Nixon's extraordinary statecraft in order to make the former president's offenses appear forgiveable. He writes...
Ronald W. Clark writes about scientists who have impacted history, but whom history has often overlooked. About five years ago he produced a well-written and well-received tome on the life and times of Albert Einstein. This year he has done the same with Edison: The Man Who Made the Future. Edison is a difficult subject to tackle. Much has already been written about him; Clark's biography was preceded by at least a dozen others. Clark could have written a valuable book if he had taken the time to analyze Edison's importance in American history, to provide...