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In a balanced and meticulously researched biography, Dublin-born journalist Brian Inglis traces the Sophoclean confluence of events and experiences that led Casement to fame, obloquy and the gallows as yet another martyr for Irish freedom. How high Casement rates in that mad hierarchy depends on how history will eventually...
Crouse implies that this obsession with duplicating the standard only enforces a level of mediocrity. In fact, it is the pariahs of pack journalism who can most easily surface with original and effective work. In what Crouse characterizes as a "male chauvinist profession," women can't pierce the camaraderie of...
The ultimate criticism of Last Rights is that it does not do justice to the complexity of death. The author's problem-solving approach deserves credit for compassion, but in its obsession with reducing the pain, it almost succeeds in making death banal.
Her one interest, which she carries to the point of obsession, is horses. "You ride horses, you talk horses, you think horses," Prince Philip reportedly once told her. "You may end up looking like a horse." Kinder commentators say that she has her ancestors' "Hanoverian features," meaning that her...
Skelton's sense of integrity in acting deliberately becomes an obsession and death no longer remains an abstraction. Tom doesn't struggle to find ultimate meaning in death itself, but in one of McGuane's clever twists, maintains his philosophy and evaluates it in terms of his own identity. Thus...