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Kiernan's portrayal of the Palestinian movement is a sympathetic one, and in showing how Arafat's role grew out of the frustrations of his early years the study is in a sense sympathetic towards its protagonist--although the reader is not left with a particularly warm regard for Arafat. Kiernan's treatment is admirably detached and well-balanced--his critique of Arafat is implicit rather than blatant...
...probably more important to give a detailed narrative of the earlier years, since less is known of them and they provided the psychological as well as political basis for Arafat's subsequent actions, Kiernan would have strengthened his treatment by not running out of steam before the reader's curiosity runs out. The superficial outline of events from 1965 to 1975 is easily gotten from other sources; Kiernan's knowledge and source material could have been more usefully applied to digging for the dynamics and personalities below those events, as he did with the earlier years...
...which secured her reputation, and revised a third, The Voyage Out. Almost weekly she reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement, composing superb little essays. She married Leonard Woolf ("Precious Mongoose" in her letters) and with him founded the Hogarth Press, for which she functioned as chief talent scout and reader of manuscripts as well as typesetter (on the dining-room table). During this decade the press published, among other titles, Prelude by Katherine Mansfield, Poems by T.S. Eliot and Story of the Siren by E.M. Forster...
...There are, in fact, marvelously unmodified capsule comments on her reading. She devoured Crime and Punishment on her honeymoon, lying on a sofa nibbling chocolates, and she kept reading and judging-nonstop, it seemed-happily ever after. While Dostoevsky was nonpareil, others came off less fortunately. Conrad, the letter reader learns, was a "distant admiration." Joyce was a doubtful quantity: "I don't know that he's got anything very interesting to say." Henry James emerged as "faintly tinged rose water." Ezra Pound was "humbug." Aldous Huxley, "in spats and grey trousers," proved eminently resistible. The elegant aphorist...
Talks with leading businessmen around the country indicate, however, that in this case the stock market has been oversensitive to the point of neurosis. Among dozens of executives interviewed by TIME correspondents, few were nearly as frightened as the plunge on Wall Street might lead a headline reader to believe. To the contrary, though the business community voted solidly for Ford, executives are taking a relaxed, wait-and-see attitude toward the forthcoming Carter Administration. They hope that the new President can indeed get the business recovery moving again, and that his populist oratory during the campaign will...