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...unimaginably complex-and utterly hopeless. Freedom at Midnight focuses on the four men who plunge ahead anyway, haggling out the new terms under which one-fifth of the world's population will live. Perhaps because Mountbatten is one of their primary sources, Collins and Lapierre cast him in heroic mold. The great-grandson of Queen Victoria faces his task with a stiff upper lip and a trembling lower one; he relishes the pomp of the viceroy's office while struggling to give it away...
...remaining obstacles to equality of opportunity, but it did mark a solid historical milestone. Never since then has there been the same measure of agreement among women as to the further goals they desire, or how these can be achieved, and consequently there has never since been the same heroic mustering of effort, except for a nationwide cause. The history of women's efforts on their own behalf since 1920 must be written from the perspective of a later date...
...book also renders a service to minor league ballplayers, raising them to something near heroic stature. We're all used to reading about the Yastrzemskis and Jacksons and the other superstars who have the fat salaries, fancy apartments, and women in every city. But we seldom hear about the 95 per cent of ballplayers who never get to the majors, about the plight of the minor-league ballplayer who lives on $600 per month...
...years in camps or committed to prison lunatic asylums. Still, the names of Valentyn Moroz, Leonid Plyushch, Ivan Svitlychny, Ihor and Iryna Kalynets and other Ukrainian political prisoners are scarcely known in the West. Elsewhere in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, other obscure and often heroic dissidents have also disappeared with equal finality into what George Orwell called "the memory hole." Only one case in a Communist country has provoked Western out rage commensurate with the reaction to the Spanish executions. That was when the death penalty was imposed on two out of eleven would-be hijackers in Leningrad...
...WILD STUNT SHOW is a heroic attempt to revive that much forgotten American art form--the vaudeville revue. When popular country singers warble about romantic "onenight-stands" we tend to forget that they are talking about those makeshift, vulgar, amateurish debacles played in cheap downtown auditoriums that we, growing up in the days of its decline, have come to associate with the word vaudeville. We tend to forget, too, that such modern idols as the Marx Brothers and Jack Benny all started like that, painfully and miserably, travelling on second-class night coach, starving and playing to jeering audiences...