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...Seldes refuses to allow the reader's heart to bleed for her. All actors face the temptation to cuddle up to the sense of failure, but "it is unprofessional to indulge these feelings." As for herself...
...writer." For one traned to convey emotion with the spoken word, Seldes expresses herself quite beautifully with written ones. Her style possesses a completely spontaneous quality, as if she were confiding these thoughts for the first time. Though concise, the writing frequently leaves an image that sways gentlyin the reader's mind...
Very few non-scientists understand the history and principles of recombinant DNA experimentation, and the book strives to fill the reader in on it although in somewhat excruciating detail...
...excitement. He has been ever since China. But he indulges this interest to excess. He falls too easily for the big names--Chou En Lai, Stillwell, MacArthur, Mao, Eisenhower and Kennedy. To White, these people are all bigger and better than life. He loses his perspective which causes the reader to lose respect for White's credibility...
...contrary, the book perpetuates worn-out stereotypes and leaves the reader wondering why some of the Irish have turned from hating to loving. He asserts that the British see the Irish as "drunkards, parasites and incompetents." And he claims that the Northen Irish "are in no mood to examine their consciences. It is easier for them to live within a traditional framework that has been imposed on them and that they have accepted, even though they know it is false and unhealthy." He does not qualify these generalizations by quoting the people he categorizes, nor does he attempt to make...