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...problem, says John Reidy of Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., is "picturing the typical reader of USA Today. I'm not sure how clearly I see this ephemeral reader." Neuharth counters that "there are millions of gypsies in this country, and if they are normal, they have retained an interest in the locations where they have lived or worked...
...civilian reader simply does not know whether to believe this legend making, retailed by the author in a tone of righteous contempt. Resentment underlies many of the arguments advanced here, and not all of it is directed against the Soviets. The author frets that "the resolve and the military capability of the West had since 1918 been sapped by an uncritical hankering for peace." Among the hankerers, they comment snidely, were what Lenin called "useful fools," and these fainthearts were quick to join "socalled 'peace movements,' unobtrusively orchestrated and largely paid for by the U.S.S.R...
...left to the generals. Hackett's lip-smacking language ("seek and destroy armor, shortened into the not infelicitous little acronym SADARM") can make the military mind seem demented. But civilian harrumphing is no more useful than the military kind, and reading Hackett's prickly books goads the reader to ask: How can the human race evolve beyond the savagery of tribalistic nationalism? -By John Skow...
...letters in six volumes that finished coming out in 1980? The countless essays and fugitive pieces being sorted and shuffled in various miscellanies? And now these reams of diaries, to be concluded in a fifth volume. What energy! What fluency! After writing final words of The Common Reader, Second Series, she jotted in a diary: "Now I'm taking a holiday. That is to say, what shall I write tomorrow...
NONFICTION: The Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Freidenberg, edited by Elliott Mossman ∙Going to the Dance, Arlene Croce ∙The Killing of Bonnie Garland, Willard Gaylin Love, Eleanor, Joseph P. Lash Midnights, Alec Wilkinson ∙The Red Smith Reader, edited by Dave Anderson