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Along the way, the reader can enjoy MacDonald's acid descriptions of the Sunbelt boneyards and debate his bleak editorial: given the depredations of the bulldozer, if there is a golden age in America it is far more likely to be enjoyed in Keokuk than in Fort Lauderdale...
...different facet of the game. And while the cheesy smell of old newsprint may be gone, along with the saintly aura that decades-old newsreel film seems to lend the athletes of a bygone era, there is still enough magic left in Kahn's writing to draw the reader into an account of the "new" game. Each chapter is an absorbing vignette, a lucid illustration rather than a pompous explanation, a group of baseball stories rather than sports theories...
...Trilling's essays invite such remarks. In this collection she offers her views on a variety of social events and movements over the last ten years; almost without exception her opinions are so unsubstantiated (except by more opinion) and presented so belligerently that the disagreeing reader is forced to spluttering defensiveness, to personal attack and outraged invective...
...would be different, perhaps, if Trilling pulled the reader along, meeting arguments, persuading one to see the logic behind her position. But because her positions rest so completely on assumptions and faith, Trilling can only deal with disagreement as the church once dealt with heretics; quarrels over her conclusions rapidly degenerate to the level of medieval clerics hurling epithets. The argument is reduced to long and involved footnotes, in which Trilling uses personal attacks to discredit her opponent...
Green's unorthodox style bespeaks his resolute individuality. Sir Walter Simpson in 1887 in his definitive The Art of Golf recognized the strengths of the unorthodox stylist: "Do I maintain, the reader may ask, that everyone ought to have the same style? By no means; on the contrary, for you or me to model ourselves on a champion is about as profitless as to copy out Hamlet in the hope of becoming Shakespeare...