Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Neither Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, author of this cover, nor Reporter-Researcher Nancy Williamson, who checked it, is a stranger to environmental nightmares. Williamson's Long Island community is threatened with ground-water pollution from chemicals. And Magnuson wrote TIME's cover story on the near nuclear disaster at Three Mile Island 18 months...
...other, more serious, half of the problem lies in the book's format. Broder says he wanted to let his politicians speak for themselves-and do they speak. The author's confidence in his subjects' political futures may be partially born out by their mastery of the Harmless Generalization, the Well-Intentioned Cliche and the Uncontroversial Piety. Normally a tough and inquisitive journalist, Broder lets answers like "If you look at the history of Western Civilization, the facts are pretty clear that man's progress is accelerated in periods when...we allow markets to allocate resources," (Rep. Phil Gramm...
DESPITE A RELENTLESSLY non-judgmental style (Broder seems to like a Marxist judge in Detroit and an Indiana housewife turned "right-to-life" activist equally), the author does manage to capture the political spirit of a generation. Acutely conscious of the current void in leadership and new ideas, they seem to be reaching out for new solutions-and, of course, new ways to get elected. Broder announces proudly his confidence in their ability to do so, though the 500 pages contain precious little in the way of new political thinking. At least, Broder concludes, "they have a crack at turning...
...exists for Joan Didion. As a reporter, she tells us, she is not really interested in issues, but in the "alchemy of issues." And what this seems to mean is that every character, every subject, from Linda Kasabian to shopping malls, must at some point brush up against the author and receive its illuminating charge from the quality of that contact. This is, of course, self-indulgence led to an often abrading extreme. But on the other hand, self-indulgence, coupled with with, passion, and intelligence, has always been the touchstone of the successful essayist. "Only a person...
...this talk about pyramids and Camel packages and red-headed people and princesses and the moon? The reason, explains Robbins, is that all of these sundry things share one characteristic: they are means of connecting ourselves with "the mystery" that makes love important to the human race. The author extends his argument by noting that although mystery likes movement, we only perceive it when we stand still. Somehow, the reader gleans, the title of the novel relates to this concept...