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...dupes of the Reagan Administration spewing forth propaganda like mindless morons (a nice twist on the traditional right-wing method of calling opponents Communist dupes). This is a tried and true method for advancing one's opinion--discredit the opposition and no one but you is left for the reader to believe--and it speaks well for Mr. Louis's cunning. I wish the same could be said for his common sense...
...reading the biography derives from its flexible approach and its lack of a didactic single answer to the enigma. Hildesheimer freely admits that his work is only a contribution to the "concert of diverse voices," yet he hopes to alter that concert with his voice. He considers "the reader's power of imagination and willingness to imagine" an integral requisite for the appreciation of his discussion...
Although no reader of this issue of TIME will notice anything unusual about the design of the Medicine section, it is, in fact, quite special. Its look is the product of a revolutionary electronic editorial tool that computerizes the makeup of a magazine page, replacing the X-acto knife and paste pot used by almost all magazine art and layout departments...
...original partner in detection and the heir to his notebooks was James Fox, a British journalist who went on to reconstruct the crime and, after trips to Kenya and interviews with Lord Erroll's friends, produce a plausible murderer. His gift for narrative immediately carries the reader into a long-gone, closed world of privilege and debauchery. White Mischiefs authentic cast of characters is as satisfyingly repellent a crew as ever peopled Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh's novel of English predators on the loose in Africa...
...powerful pedagogical instrument, the sight of someone overwhelmed overwhelming by refraction. True, the relationship of teacher to the work of art is that of a middleman, but in the best circumstances the middleman becomes a magnifying glass ("Do you see this?"). Instead of intruding between Yeats and his reader, he shows Yeats in the light, reveals not only poetry but how poetry comprehends the world, thus lending his students the eyes of the poet. At full strength, the teacher is an artist himself, and not just for restorations. Treating the book as an event, he manipulates...