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...SpongeBob SquarePants” absurdity. But even the hip 20-something in ironically oversized sunglasses I saw crossing D.C.’s New York Avenue the other day held a copy of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” along with her Jana Feifer purse...
While the majority of Allied soldiers shrank from atrocity, a few were not averse to inflicting on the Japanese the horrors that had been visited on their comrades. In Tennozan, George Feifer cites Marine memories of barbaric acts against "the Japs" on Okinawa. The dead were cut up in search of souvenirs; soldiers, surrendering unarmed, were shot. Elsewhere, hospital ships were sunk and prisoners tortured. In 1946 Edgar Jones wrote in the Atlantic Monthly: "What kind of war do civilians suppose we fought, anyway? We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, strafed lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians...
...setting is back-lot Moscow. The plot, based on a novel by George Feifer, employs the sort of people who trade in hard currencies and Western jazz records on the famous black market there in a vain effort to relieve the pervading drabness. The thought that the secret police may be crashing round the edges of an East-meets-West romance adds the faintest imaginable flavor of suspense to this bowl of borsch. Actually, the only thing to be said for the locale is that when the Russians find people behaving as tiresomely as Miss Hawn, they haul them into...
...Burg and Feifer's direct attempts at criticizing Solzhenitsyn's work fall similarly on several counts. They make partisan defenses of his work which occasionally take an extraordinary form, such as the collaborate justification of August 1914 in terms of political orthodoxy. The biographers also have an unfortunate tendency to quote other people's superlatives as a justification for their own exaltation of Solzhenitsyn. The consensus of critics can no more save a piece of fiction than the vote of the Soviet Writers Union can condemn it. The authors' failure to give the sort of attention to the actual novels...
...biography's small value arises only in its usefulness as a compendium of bits of minor information. Burg and Feifer may have faced an impossible task, but their response has gone only a short way towards meeting the challenge...