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Radical or Liar? By far, his most effective performance came before 3,000 Wisconsin State University students in Stevens Point. In snow-bunny country, he japed about his own ski-jump nose, then turned serious for a continent-by-continent review of U.S. policy. On Viet Nam, Nixon nimbly sidestepped the thorny question of what should be done about the problem now, and simply insisted: "We must prevent confrontations like that in Viet Nam. We must help people in the free world fight against aggression, but not do their fighting for them...
Memory is a subtle liar and often a bad writer of fiction-but it can be a marvelous storyteller. Very early in this rush of remembrance of a Brooklyn boyhood 30 years ago, it is clear that Gerald Green has let memory do all the work. His hero, Albert Abrams, is a skinny, precocious, unheroic kid who tags fearfully after a gang of asphalt Iroquois called the Raiders. The book follows Albert and his heroes-a splendidly underprivileged crew of dirty-cut young men-through a wild summer day in the Brownsville streets. The action begins with the formal curbside...
...coined the phrase later attributed to the legendary Algoma prospector Old Sam Martin: "Any man who sez he's been et by a wolf is a liar...
...final gesture, the narrator seems to turn up the house lights to reveal that his tale is only an illusion. As he sees it, writers are "liars" who continually try to hide the truth because it can drive men mad. So the reader is advised: "Let us all lie together, or surely we shall all lie alone." Fortunately, Fuentes is a natural-born "liar." and frequently skillful and imaginative enough to rivet the attention. Even his windy sales pitches from the existential soapbox are not without charm and vitality. It is as if Fuentes were more interested in the pitch...
...predators"; there is no authenticated case of a wolf killing a human being in North America. A newspaper editor once offered a reward for a verifiable wolf atrocity story. After ten fruitless years he remarked: "Any man who says he's been eaten by a wolf is a liar...