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...party at the home of one of the firm's managers. "While I was there, I noticed a group gathered outside on the patio. I guess I'm naive, but I decided to join the crowd. Well, they were smoking grass, and they had other drugs available." The reader declined to participate, but feared that "I may be too conservative." Grove firmly approved of his correspondent's actions...
Huang also raps the Government department's excessive requirements, especially a rule that requires a third reading for any thesis receiving two high grades. That dictum, according to Huang, cost him a higher thesis grade by allowing a reader unfamiliar with China to make "ignorant and irresponsible" criticisms of his work. He says he probably would concentrate in Social Studies if given another chance...
...judges novelists on extra-literary, political grounds, admitting, "I may be blinded by my own politics." This is an understatement. After reading a sentence such as "Like the fly and the dunghill, left-wing sociology and left-wing sociology and leftwing fiction feed upon and replenish each other," the reader may find his politics difficult to miss. In fact, most of the essays in this collection were published first in Commentary or New Criterion...
Epstein's title, Plausible Prejudices, is a shrewd deflation of the potential objection that he is foisting his ideological prejudices on the unsuspecting reader. He makes no claim to the truth. He allows that as a critic he "can only state his belief persuasively," and impose "opinions by main force of eloquence." For this critical duel, he chooses not eternal verity but rather eloquence at forty paces. This is a wise choice, for Epstein wields a pen like the most powerful handgun in the world, and in the course of the book, blows several heads clean off. Listen...
...words, 300 of which were direct quotations. The chosen quotes featured the ex- President's defense of his pardon of Richard Nixon, and Nation Editor Victor Navasky argued that Ford's own words on the pardon and other subjects were "hot news." The book's publishers, Harper & Row and Reader's Digest, sued, charging that Navasky had violated the copyright laws and stolen former President Ford's right to determine the time and place for first publication of his recollections...