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...difficult not to be furious at the airheadedness vocabulary and a sort of breezy California child-worship and irresponsibility among those who were supposed to be the adults. Someone had obviously caught the virus from the '60s that disabled grownup functions...
...spent a lifetime as a polemicist, however, he's been a nationally prominent one, meaning someone whose most indigestible sentiments have still mostly stopped short of, well, extremism. But how short? The question becomes more than academic now that he is a serious presidential contender. When he derides "the worship of democracy" or calls Martin Luther King "immoral, evil and a demagogue," is Buchanan just pushing the edge of the envelope, or is he tearing it to shreds...
Welles got it. For five years he symbolized America's worship and suspicion of the Artist. He was famous in New York for the Mercury Theater (which he and Houseman started after leaving the WPA) and to the rest of the nation from radio--as the voice of the Shadow, or from the Mischief Night frenzy his The War of the Worlds broadcast stoked...
...novel's central thesis--that movie theaters have become modern America's houses of worship--is never really demonstrated in action. Except for Essie's adventures in Hollywood, the lives and deaths of the various Wilmots transpire at a far remove from silver screens. And for all its author's labors toward unity, In the Beauty of the Lilies remains an assemblage of separate and unequally inspired fragments...
...Cabot dining hall, people pointed and talked wildly about the stern, eight-foot-tall face staring them down. Parents told their friends; dog owners reported it to their kennel clubs; Quadlings brought their River friends to worship...