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...prospect, argues Heilbroner, is based not so much upon the ability to rationally predict the problems of the future, as in an appraisal of the capacity of all mankind to meet up to the challenges of the future; this self-evaluation is necessarily subjective. The Human Prospect introduces the reader to the more predictable challenges and solutions of the future, and leaves the doors leading into the more irrational processes of self-assessment only slightly ajar...
...makes everybody look your way before you're through the door, then you know how insidious this character is. Frankly, James wouldn't have stood for him; the sexual undertones are too explicit. No, James leaves those doors through which two people walk to the imagination of the reader. He gives you the gossip, and from there, it depends on how perverse or vivid your imagination is. Bogdanovich's is depraved: he makes Winterbourne's feeble mobility into a hypocritical desire for Daisy...
Henry James originally subtitled Daisy Miller as "A Study." Later on, in a 1909 preface to the novella he suppressed the subtitle, claiming it was mere poetic artifice. But he also wrote then that readers might have mistaken the subtitle for a literal epithet to his "poor little heroine's" name, characterized by flatness. "Flatness indeed," wrote James, "one must have felt, was the very sum of her story; so that perhaps after all the attached epithet was meant but as a deprecation, addressed to the reader, of any great critical hope of stirring scenes." If the film had used...
...saint. Westerners -courtesy of cold war propaganda, a free press and honest scholarship-regard both men with varying degrees of repugnance. Even to them, much of the cruelty and stupidity will seem dreadful enough. Solzhenitsyn produces moments that are unbearable, breaking through all defenses that the mid-20th century reader is likely to have raised against being afflicted by the pain of others...
Robert Gottlieb, 43, president of Alfred A. Knopf, is a compulsive reader and passionate editor who once thought of himself as purely literary. After graduating from Yale and studying English at Cambridge University, he returned to his native Manhattan and, he says, "I found to my astonishment, gratification and horror that I had some business talents as well as literary ones." He joined Simon & Schuster in 1955, left to become editor-in-chief at Knopf in 1968. Convinced that good writing sells, Gottlieb has won a devoted following of top authors. Among those he personally edits are John Cheever, Doris...