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...Mozart, F.D.R., J.F.K., the media blizzard that can confuse rather than inform, the political and intellectual ideologues who reduce philosophy and art to pseudoscientific theory -- were written over the past three decades and are too separated by time and subject to provide a coherent analysis. For that the reader should turn to The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, Bellow's late friend and colleague at the University of Chicago. Yet even if It All Adds Up is more an agglomeration of rants than a systematic critique, it is inspiring to watch someone as august and honored...
...electronic fare cards were double-charging them for rides or failing to let them through the automated turnstiles. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority blamed the confusion on riders who had not yet learned to use the cards properly and were running them twice through the bar-code reader at the turnstile...
...smart cards, which look like conventional bank plastic but store information on computer chips instead of magnetic stripes. Such cards could hold, say, the profile of an airline passenger, including his frequent-flyer points and seat preferences. With a single swipe of a card through an airline's electronic reader, a traveler could make a reservation and get a seat assignment...
...respond to stories with astonishing versatility of imagination. The three- year-old listening to his grandmother momentarily becomes Peter Rabbit; the geezer reading Patrick O'Brian's sea stories feels scared on the quarterdeck ; of a storm-blown frigate. But the distinction between what the reader imagines and what he actually experiences remains solid -- the geezer does not actually get seasick...
...drama is to succeed, the passion must not merely engage the reader intellectually; it must arouse him. For this heterosexual male, who has imagined himself to be Moll Flanders and Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the failure is total. Such a statement will surely be called homophobia, but fear and disapproval are not operating here. In fact, nothing is operating. The reader's reaction is vague exasperation. His mind simply does not have the software to induce the intended physiological response to the author's erotic obsessions, and these are the essence of the book. Such thoughts, of course, must occur regularly...