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...Liberation War" he rose to become political commissar of the revolutionary Second Field Army; he wound up both wars with a record of glory and rose to membership in the Standing Committee by 1956. With the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, he was officially named the "No. 2 capitalist reader" in the party, after Liu Shaoqi. Accused of arrogance, gluttony and dissolute habits (addiction to bridge and mah-jongg), he was purged and paraded through the streets of Peking wearing a dunce cap. He was rusticated several times-to stoop labor in Jiangxi, later to serve meals at the mess...
...novel's central rivalry climaxes in Beirut, though not before DelCorso tussles with guilt, a bruised class conscience and the bitter truth that he would rather chase wars than stay home with his wife and children. From the reader's point of view, this is a good thing. A domesticated DelCorso, brooding about integrity, mortgage payments and marriage, proves to be unbearable. Abroad, he is the subject of an oldfashioned, manly novel, crisply written with plenty of locker-room banter and bang-bang. -By R.Z. Sheppard
...seem to get all the crayon marks inside the lines. Even the Tribune's "Good Morning" rests inside a blue box, like those so frequently favored by USA Today. The blue tint does make the "Good Morning" look soft and warm, but it still seems rather unlikely that a reader will be moved to say, "And a good morning to you, Chicago Tribune...
...another of the "Life" section. Each of the front pages in turn offer tidbits about what lies in inside. The bottom of page one describes what will be in tomorrow's USA Today, and so on, In fact, the paper devotes so much room to previews that a reader might well ask where the news comes...
While the reader (like Wiktor) is suitably impressed by this woman, he may have a hard time finding her a believable character. These are rather extreme statements, and the reader knows nothing of her that would make these statements more characteristic of her than anyone else. Michener tells the reader that she plays Chopin mazurkas "as if she must make an important statement for all Poles living in exile..." and that she has been Wiktor's mistress for two nights, but he has shown us nothing that would prove the basis of such political fervor or such a character...