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...Fiedler does have a knack of presenting provocative material in such a rich context that it rarely fails to stimulate the reader's imagination. He is the antithesis of the cautious academic reading from yellowed lecture notes. In fact, a good case could be made that The Return of the Vanishing American is really a sly anti-Ph.D. thesis...
When Ross is allowed to come on, the reader gets a wifely glimpse of the homely, ungainly and not too articulate Coloradan who proved that an itinerant hick reporter could come to the big city and give the blase natives the last thing one would have expected from him: a successful, sophisticated magazine. It was not, Ross proclaimed, "for the old lady in Dubuque"; it wasn't even for Ross's own mother. Her unreal ized ambition for him was to see something under his byline in the Saturday Evening Post. He was shy, so much so that...
...journalism (TIME) as well as fiction (Kings Go Forth. Stars in My Crown), Brown tells his tale in matter-of-fact, down-to-earth prose. But by the time Paul heads eastward, the least wary reader will know that the hero is in for a stiff bout of navel-gazing-and, almost surely, a religious experience that will change his existence. His guru is a holy man named Bhaiji who receives a mortal stab wound during a religious riot. And sure enough, just before his death, Bhaiji manages through his power to implant faith and purpose in Paul...
...Sobered by Reader Catling's challenge, TIME'S reviewer conducted an informal poll of young virgins. Result: some ravishingly reddened, others cutely crimsoned, while still others indeed prettily pinkened...
SOME STUPID asshole from my school applied to Harvard and I figured that if he was applying I could too and I could do better than he could. I used to read Saturday Review and Reader's Digest and it sounded like The Place, the intellectual community of scholars, the intellectual free place where everybody questions things...