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Before he got into trouble in Argentina. Timerman was ostensibly a journalist Judging by The Longest War, his current profession is conscience mercenary. That is, if a prospect of profit exists. Timerman will suffer, feel awful and decry all injustice. With sweeping flourishes. Timerman is a kin of prose Whitman who sympathizes with almost everything, "weeping dolefully" for the events in Lebanon and the decline of moral Israel. He does this by pretending he is an insider, a native with a bona fide claim to all the world's ills. He declares without hesitation that since his first reading...
...describes him in 1958 at the time he completed Life Studies. After three months in an institution, "the papers piled up on the floor, the books on the bed, the bottles of milk on the windowsill, and the ashtray filled. He looked like one of the great photographs of Whitman...
...harsh or deep the animosity, a good enemy will often become first recognizable, then familiar and eventually even likable. "My only love sprung from my only hate!" said Juliet, thus crumbling in an exclamation what her forebears took decades to develop. When the American Civil War was over, Walt Whitman lamented: "My enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead." With enemies like that, who needs friends! This is the danger of applying conscience to what ought to be conducted by naked reflex. It is benumbing to consider how many perfectly good enmities have been ruined...
...murderer. "Other killers," he says, "have a certain satisfaction in stalking their victims. But this is a much more technically oriented crime; the killer does not perceive as clearly the actual death of his victims." Who gets killed appears to be a matter of indifference. Even gunmen like Charles Whitman, who killed 16 people from his perch in a Texas tower in 1966, have more direct contact with their victims. Rarely have the time and distance between murderous act and deadly result been greater. Anonymous poisoning is a remote-control crime, allowing the killer to feel omnipotent by rendering...
...other people reportedly on the White House list are Alan Greenspan, president of the New York consulting firm Townsend. Greenspan & Co: Ezra Solomon, an economics professor at Stanford University, and Marina Whitman, chief economist and vice president of the General Motors Corporation...