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...among the cables used to dampen the reaction, knocking out both the primary and secondary safety systems. Plant engineers later said it was a miracle that they managed to regain control over the reactor before it blew up completely. The point of this book is simply to inform the reader that a total meltdown might happen someday--and probably will, unless society becomes more careful in using nuclear power or swears it off entirely...
...autobiography has done its job, and the reader has seen a man intelligent and selfabsorbed, better at action than ideas, somewhat rueful and, by his own testimony, a reasonably decent fellow. The inclination is to accept the judgment. - John Skow
...Tillie Olsen takes a sentence from Andre' Gide as her epigram: "I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance." It is in her discussion of the subtler, unspoken, often unconscious ways society has of grinding human beings down that she comes closest to inspiring hope in the reader. By asking the writer "questions" is this true? Is this all?" Olsen overturns values that too many repressed people unconsciously accept. Here she lists the insights stored up during her period of silence. Each is a revelation in miniature, liberating the reader from widely--held misconceptions, many of which seem...
Thus does he offer, as the title says, the landscapes of a Western mind. Strange-his remembering, like any well-told story, makes events seem as though they happened long ago, or in some time less place. A reader may be surprised now and then when the book brings a reminder that the author was born only in 1939 and grew up in contemporary Montana. Still, Ivan Doig's youth is good news. An ex-newspaperman living in Seattle, he has a lot of time remaining in which to remember and write.-Frank Trippett
...Kenyatta remained something of an enigma. He changed his reputation at least as often as he altered his name?from Kamau wa Ngengi to Johnstone Kamau, then Johnstone Kenyatta and finally Jomo Kenyatta?as he grew from a herdboy to a mission-school pupil, from a Nairobi water-meter reader to a political activist. His career was shaped by the crucial facts of Kenya life: the lust for land by his Kikuyu tribesmen, and the character of the settler community that was determined to fight to preserve Kenya as a white man's country...