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...Reader Doris Brown's anti-Jewish distortions [Sept. 20] typify blind prejudice...
Even an experienced Crimson reader might blink at Wednesday's unsigned editorial about Richard Hyland. Usually the Crimson makes some pretense of marshalling evidence to support opinion. But in this case, just after the writer notes that "of the facts in Dick's (Hyland's) case, we know nothing and do not presume to judge," he asserts that "he (Hyland) is a political prisoner...
...using another man's credit card is absorbing-especially when reported and assembled by Gay Talese, the golden retriever of personalized journalism. As in The Kingdom and the Power, his best-selling chronicle of traditions and feuds at the New York Times, Talese drops more at the reader's feet than anyone knows what to do with. Honor Thy Father is a jumble of you-are-there re-reportage, underworld history, fictionalized interior monologues, and a long courtroom scene. But it is never dull...
...recommend. One or two sentences, not more, are worth prizing out of their settings to be enjoyed. "She laughed," Condon writes with a bit of the old jazz, in "three low musical tones, deliciously, like a dying sailor's memory of a whorehouse doorbell." Let the dying reader's memory be of The Manchurian Candidate...
...reader has to be in literary training to follow Mosley's hopscotch course. He is one of a number of writers, the best of them Nabokov, whose subject is often the nature of creativity itself. What fictional furniture there is seems of secondary importance, to be moved around at will. Tony seems negligent and disillusioned. He is married to Elizabeth, whom he "likes," but his only real involvement is an obsessive affair with Natalia Jones, the wife of another M.P. On the face of it Natalia seems a routine bitch. Her jealousy, her suicide threats, her retreat...