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...high entertainment. It is, at 600 pages, also long enough to display Burgess at his best and second best: the penetrating dramatist of culture clash and the clever animater of received wisdom. His new novel stretches from the Edwardian Age through the 1970s. At the halfway mark, the reader has already had brushes with Freud, T.S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Havelock Ellis, Mussolini and Heinrich Himmler...
...Tocqueville's classic study, Democracy in America. His curriculum reads like a course of study in The Modern Western World: Bell's own Sociology 102, "Societal Analysis," Stanley Hoffmann's Government 185, "The United States in World Affairs," and Government 148, "American Political Development" with Samuel Huntington. A voracious reader with a native facility for the English language, Zhao has become an ardent student. Saturdays this term have been occupied with trips to Bell's house, for two-hour private seminars where the professor lectures and the two men discuss, among other things, Bell's conclusions in The Coming...
...Still, reader curiosity about the future may be insatiable: How else explain the popularity of astrology columns? Probably the most ambitious and serious attempt to hunch the future was the Carnegie Corporation-financed Commission on the Year 2000, a gathering of distinguished scholars directed by Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell. It met in the '60s but petered out by 1972. "It makes no sense to predict the future," says Bell. "There are too many contingencies. What you can do is identify relevant frameworks, and identify problems-but you don't know what will be done about them, which...
...thank you, my mother thanks you, I and my girlfriend thanks you." So wrote a satisfied reader of How to Do Your Own Divorce in California to the book's publisher, Nolo Press. The happily divorced man is one of millions of Americans who have found that a likely place to seek solutions to their legal problems is often the neighborhood bookstore. Self-help manuals are proliferating, usually in paperback, and cover every subject from small-claims court to homosexual rights. Nolo, with 20 titles in print, expects to gross $750,000 this year, up $500,000 from...
...emotion for Bundy's victimes is especially outrageous. The bodies just pile up. The first is no more tragic than the 20th because Larson gives no thought to the women--he just cranks out a banal notation of these girls' eye color, hair length, and extra-curricular activities. The reader can only conclude that Larson really didn't care that much. Women slain in Seattle blur with women bludgeoned, stripped, and abandoned in Salt Lake City, Aspen, and Tallahassee. As the stock descriptions accumulate we get only a sense of the growth of the pile. Death here is only...