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...subway system-the city's bone structure. The guide duly describes and portrays such Philadelphia splendors as Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was signed, the old residential area of Society Hill, the Beaux Arts vistas of Ben Franklin Parkway. But the authors always remind the reader that there is a lot of ordinary, gritty urban landscape between such touristic highlights, and that these gaps-not the landmarks alone-give the city its texture, content and life. They thus unabashedly show Philadelphia's dilapidated docks, bleak slums, traffic jams and ubiquitous graffiti-the real city...
...hard to give him the last measure of commitment-and even love-that a passionate reader gives to a very few writers: (let's say) Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Twain, Melville, Yeats, Crane and yesbygod Hemingway. Is it Updike's faint tinge of smugness? Is he too much a cherisher of clever conceits? The reasons seem murkier the more they are examined, but they refuse to be examined away. What stirs these grumbles this time is the author's new collection of short stories. The book also stirs, of course, all of the old admiration: Lord, how well...
After using up about 50 pre cent of the news print space and half of the reader's time--building up your straw man columnist, you proceed with your own party line in a manner more demagogic than decent...
...insert just enough sound, analytical comment and show just enough of a good, if somewhat overblown, prose style to make the reader take you seriously, when in fact--all you're concerned with is trying out your wings, rather hatefully, as a "columnist...
Despite their appearances of bias, it would be unfair to compare Harvard Administrator Farber with Vietnam architects and apologists, or to make any more of the analogy between his factfinding mission and previous ones than a simple caveat to the reader; a warning that the reader be wary of the implicit cultural arrogance of a four-week quest for the truth in a foreign land. Farber's own cover letter admitted that "before my departure I was not sure that my investigations abroad would yield substantially more information than I had (already) been able to compile...