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COHEN SPENDS a great deal of space showing himself as a person. We learn of his basketball ability, his youth, and his love for his family. This fluff may make good campaign literature in the future, but does nothing for the reader. In some parts, Cohen carries it to an extreme. Poetry, Cohen says, plays an important part in his life, and he tells us that a passage from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance convinced him not to run for Senator two years earlier...
Such passages are rarely dull, but they do produce a peculiar lifelessness in the novel as a whole. There is little to propel the reader forward except the expectation of more information. Vidal provides a multitude of incidents but no strong plot to bind them together. Cyrus abjures suspense; he has the habit of introducing characters by telling what finally happens to them first. Aside from the old man's large memory, Creation is unified by a single irony: Cyrus tells of his search for religious certainty to the person who will one day become an eminent philosopher...
Five years ago, we started a new company, because we still believed in America. This reader, then 60, was the youngest partner. We have fought against foreign imports at prices and terms we could not meet, but refused Government help. Rather, we looked for new ideas...
...microfiche system consists of a reader resembling a portable television set and several hundred sheets of microfilm the size of index cards...
...British understatement the ultimate modesty or the ultimate snobbery? A reader's answer is a fair test for dividing those who love Powell from those who do not. But what reader can help admiring a man who, in the face of Judgment Day, would score the last bars for the piccolos...