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...that the Miltons give this impression, for though the debates undoubtedly seemed pointless at times, there must have been more to them than the desire to write bigger and better large-character posters than your opponents. The Miltons fail to go into the ideological conflict very deeply, leaving the reader with little sense of the theoretical basis of the namecalling--one knows there was a great deal of commotion, but it seems to have been without reason. They offer an exact, detailed timetable, to be sure--they have researched the subject thoroughly, and each event is chronicled carefully and exactly...
...book by Sabatini almost impossible to stop reading? For the same reason it's almost impossible to stop watching the magician saw the lady in half. In Chapter 1 this author invariably tempts the reader to identify with a courageous young man, then thrusts the young man into marrow-freezing danger. From there on the suspense rarely lets...
...another Sabatini attraction. From a mind crammed with historical minutiae he fans a rich dust of authenticity over his scenes. In The Black Swan and The Sea Hawk, when a sailing ship fires off a broadside, Sabatini draws on his vast vocabulary of sailor latin to inform the reader that a battery of sakers on the gun deck of a galleass is bombarding a galliot with langrel that has collapsed its topgallants and smashed a few slush lamps. He is just as sure-footed ashore. When Sabatini finishes describing Captain Blood's hangout, the pirate fortress at Tortuga...
...self be true, and I simply remain unconvinced. The great Elizabethan scholar Alfred Harbage (whom Harvard and the world lost only recently), having devoted most of his life to Shakespeare, said of As You Like It that "a fondness for it is the best single test of a reader's compatibility with Shakespeare." So I stand condemned...
...drug addict, Farber proposes, may be the prototype for all willful Americans hooked on the "demonic notion" that by chemistry or stubbornness, one can have what one wants, right now. As for suicide, Farber refers the reader to Dostoyevsky. "I will assert my will," says Kirillov in The Possessed-just be fore he commits suicide...