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Modestly ironic accounts of crocodiles evaded, sheep's-ear soup survived, and thieving camel drivers overcome are what a proper travel book requires. The author labors at gaudy landscapes because they make good backdrops for sketches of himself in jaunty poses; the reader tolerates this hamminess because tales of bandits and dysentery make him feel snug in his armchair. Writing such stuff is an honest dodge, and in recent years no one has dodged more expertly than Paul Theroux in The Great Railway Bazaar (Europe and Asia) and The Old Patagonian Express (North and South America...
...unspoken compact between author and reader, however, assumes that the author should more or less enjoy his journeying. Not everything about it, not the fleas and the sandstorms. In general, though, a good travel writer should like what he sees and, in the manner of a Labrador retriever who wanders, admire each new vista slightly more than the last. If not, why travel? What's the point...
According to Graham T. Allison '67, dean of the K-School, the tapes and transcripts "vividly remind the reader of the personalities and the seriousness of the situation...
...ORWELLIAN NIGHTMARE of an omnipresent Big Brother intrigued and frightened the reader of the 1940's and 1950's. Today, we casually dismiss such scenarios as fanciful tales or impossibilities. But unknown to most Americans, the Administration has proposed a sweeping plan to monitor the public activities of government officials on a scale unprecedented in our history. Last week, the Senate wisely delayed the implementation of the President's controversial directive to subject federal employees to random lie detector tests and lifelong censorship. The rule (which will now go into effect next April) would have applied to officials cleared...
...chapter called "The Philosophy," which consists entirely of quotes culled from Patton's books, articles, letters, and speeches. The author fears that the intrusion of dates or some other indication of context will break the flow of the narrative, but his answer to the problem backfires, leaving the reader clueless as to how to interpret the mass of information given. Patton's collected work may well be a compelling document, but it cannot stand by itself as a "philosophy", in the absence of other data...