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Amis keeps the reader looking in the wrong direction until the highly sophisticated and almost credible solution...
...that they are not Jews but that they are not Christians. He is called Yakov Bok (a name that suggests scapegoat), a Russian who is a stranger to Russia, who makes himself a stranger to his own Jewish tradition, and who is finally a stranger to everyone but the reader...
Studying the ads submitted, Lufthansa itself rejected several phrases, including one claiming that "German mechanics love their nuts and bolts more than their wives." The public rejected more of the ads. From all parts of the world suddenly came protesting letters. One U.S. reader tore out an ad with a reference to "fanatical thoroughness" and sent it to Lufthansa's Cologne headquarters with the marginal notation, "i.e., Eichmann." Another, objecting to the claim that Germans do everything with "painful thoroughness," commented, "particularly gas chambers." An Israeli sent in a six-page, handwritten letter of criticism. From London...
...denouement cannot be far away," Edwards warns. But before the reader is quite prepared to meet this day, he must accept a weird record of incidents in which hundreds of people at different times and in different parts of the world have seen something buzzing about in the sky, silently or with a low humming, shining by day or glowing by night, scorching the earth or disturbing the water under its burnished bottom, sometimes plunging into the sea or a river, but mostly zooming off, presumably back to where it came from...
...reader must wade through yards and yards of such silly stuff to find anything really worth rereading: a devastatingly unchivalrous-and perceptive-examination of Mary McCarthy's The Group, an equally perceptive report on the 1964 Republican National Convention, a quick survey of contemporary fiction that should rank Mailer among the better critics today...