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Modest Conclusions. Wakefield's Supernation began life as a superstory in the Atlantic, filling nearly all of one issue. A subjective oddity is that in the Atlantic, it seemed weighty and formidable, one of those worthy projects the reader sets aside for a time when his mind and calendar...
Thompson reasons this way: Prime Minister Churchill had presided over a long string of military disasters. By August 1942, Singapore had fallen, Crete was gone, and the British were being hit hard everywhere. The nation desperately needed a great victory and a greater hero. With the sure hand of a...
By early evening only the stragglers were left and the Common returned to its gutted, wasteland appearance. By then everyone, who was anyone, had made his appearance: General Waste-More-Land alias General Hershey-bar had convinced everyone that he should be interned at the earliest opportunity; and Evy (better...
Bellicose Charm. The Armies of the Night occasionally suffers from the languor that inevitably descends upon any one-character work. And it is not with out Mailer's usual excesses. He enjoys his own jokes too inordinately; he protests his right to protest too much, with some of the...
However, as journalism-which is history's fief in time-the book is another matter. Mailer is pretentious about Marxism. When he suggests that it would not really matter if all Asia went Communist, because expansion only creates problems for Communism, he is, at best, playful or naive. He...