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...Little Foxes, The Chalk Garden, Tiger at the Gates, Don Juan in Hell, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Misanthrope. Says he: "The idea that reviewers love bad shows so they can be very clever is the reverse of the truth. If you like a play, your praise carries the reader with you. If you don't like it, you have to sustain the reader's interest. Two of the most delightful evenings I ever had in the theater were at the English production of The Importance of Being Earnest and a revival of Pal Joey. Both times...
...chief obstacle to reading Mila 18 is the reader's own memory. The novel all but duplicates John Hersey's The Wall. Author Uris even retains Hersey's slow device of telling whole sections of the story in the form of journal entries from the diary of a garrulous, intellectual archivist. If the color tone of Hersey's book was documentary grey, the hue of Uris' novel is stage catchup, the kind of theatricality that demeans the suffering that the book is meant to dignify...
...less-sophisticated version of the same hysteria that prompts Time to label the tractors "bulldozers"--an ogre word with a vaguely military sound. The National Review hints that Castro's tractors will immediately be shipped to Red China. And the darkese suspicion of all was voiced by a reader in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, who said that henceforth American foreign policy would be directed by Walter Reuther...
...terse study by Schelling and Halperin, both members of the University's Center for International Affairs, attempts to explicitly define the term "arms control." Superbly concise, it presents both the prospects and problems in a cool, logical style understandable to any reader. It avoids both the massiveness and the technically of last fall's issue of Daedalus, also a product of the summer study...
...only does Hadley deal inadequately with strategy, but he also presents arms control in a shallow manner. Although he says several times that arms control is no panacea, his failure to explore the actual essence of arms control yields that impression. In other words, the reader puts down his book thinking that if only the nation were as bright as Hadley and consequently understood the need for arms control, it could then buy "it" downtown somewhere...