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When King is busy explicating text, as he does in his chapter on "The Bear," or reviewing the main themes of Southern Renaissance authors or historians, his observations are mostly on target, some quite perceptive. But his perceptions often are not his own. His examination of The Sound and The Fury relies heavily, as he admits, on Faulkner critic John Irwin's thesis of repetition in Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge. His discussions of the intellectuals themselves amounts to no more than a rehash of other authors' already well-articulated opinions...
Italian immigrants founded the first United States chapter in Cambridge in 1911, and the Massachusetts chapter has held its monthly meetings at the Harvard Divinity School for the past 16 years...
...cold, dark view on life, the film changes tone: now it is bleak and blue, now it is warm and red. Does Schlondorff misunderstand his little hero or has he simply made only token efforts at linking each sequence to the whole? He manages to reduce the most profound chapter of Grass' novel, a discussion about art and life between a midget magician and a soliderly artist to a frolicking picnic atop a cement pillbox...
There are federal laws that forbid persons to detain a Government carrier pigeon or to use the likeness of Smokey Bear without permission, and bar seamen from seducing passengers on a steamship. Yet there is no national statute prohibiting bank extortion, and some espionage offenses are buried in the chapter on atomic energy. These are just a few of the peculiarities of federal criminal law, a hodgepodge of 3,000 statutes that have accumulated since the first days of the republic. As a whole, says Senate Judiciary Committee Special Counsel Kenneth Feinberg, the aide most responsible for promoting...
...Once his shyness was breached, however, no one holding a Harvard appointment could have been more helpful, and self-effacingly so. In the last week I worked on my thesis with him, for example, he rearranged his schedule so that I could drop off a chapter with him in the evenings, and pick it up the next morning at 9 a.m. with his comments. I felt like my crudely drawn icon had been labored on overnight by an ego-less angel liberal with light and gold-leaf...