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Like its Japanese parent, the new PHP is similar in size to Reader's Digest. But in other ways it resembles no journal of the Western world-with the possible exception of Benjamin Franklin's old brainchild, Poor Richard's Almanac. Devoid of ads, news, politics religion, sex, its 108 pages brim with simplistic sermonettes, warm remembrances and fervent hopes. Texts, which seldom run over 500 words, are sprinkled with bland heads ("One-Man Production" "Dynamics for Survival"), beguiling sketches and bylines of the famous and the unknown...
...quality of hazy sadness that finally debilitates Whitewater. The book's tone is almost elegiac. Everything is over. The reader is not told, but knows anyway, that the narrator's friend is doomed, that the present time of the story lies far in the past. It is all beyond changing. Reliving it all gently and ruefully, the narrator makes no discoveries, nor is he changed by the task of reburying his youth...
American commander William C. Westmoreland and President Lyndon B. Johnson agreed. Charges of cowardice (usually baseless) against segregated black troops from World War I to Korea were laid to rest. Concluded the Reader's Digest: the American Negro has earned his red badge of courage...
...accomplished Heinlein readers do not usually take offense at those of his books which propound political philosophies contrary to everything the reader believes; for we know that, if we but wait long enough, he will write another book in which he will ardently defend exactly the opposite point of view. It is a measure of the man's incredible philosophical wishy-washiness that one of his novels, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, is one of the guiding tracts of the YAF, while Stranger In A Strange Land (his greatest, I might add) has helped inspire thousands of acid-freaks...
This all took about one tenth of the current length of I Will Fear No Evil, and was approximately ten times as interesting. It is obvious to most of you, from reading this capsule summation. But such is the force of Heinlein's narrative style that it takes the reader at least a week to realize that he has been sold a bill of goods...