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...wrong time make the novel seem more like a sappy tear-jerker than a poignant analysis of a tormented woman. Unfortunately, the portrait of Susan is less vivid. While the majority of the novel is devoted to supposed introspection on Susan's part, most of the lines provide little insight into Susan herself. How Susan's problems with men, for example, relate to her parents' past never becomes clear. As a result, the novel appears more like a series of tangent plots thrown inadvertently together than a unified, coherent work...
...journal of opinion. The elderly, courtly Strout was an anomaly on a staff of editors whose average age is under 30. Strout will be hard to replace, his journalist friend I.F. Stone says, because his thinking was firmly rooted in a "day-to-day reporter's bits of insight and vivid glimpses." Nor will Strout's lucid style, his knowledge and integrity be easily matched. Editor Hendrik Hertzberg and Owner Martin Peretz hope to find a successor who is content to remain anonymous, as Strout was for a long time. That is asking...
...Mountains are metaphors," Harold says, but imminent death is not. The two men jest, curse and trade raw-tongued obscenities-all impotent delaying actions. Playwright Meyers tries to penetrate the core of each man's being, but he is only fitfully successful. Information is not insight. Meyers probes the past lives of Taylor and Harold, but not their hearts and souls or the roots of their perplexing friendship. Taylor is a hard-nosed district attorney with a rightist bias who revels in his animal prowess with girls in singles bars. Harold is a do-good veteran...
...attempt to construct a viable society out of an island of former plantations and fit it into an international community characterized by superpower domination and an economic order designed to keep the little guy down. What emerges is a disturbing image of the United States and a valuable insight into the plight or the Third World...
While Cole may lack insight into the deeper causes and effects of the Vietnam War and its ramifications. Medal of Honor Rag intriguingly explores one aspect of the monster. This endlessly resurfacing theme makes it clear that the beast is still gnawing at America's innards...