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...diplomatic cables, memoranda, personal memoirs and previous historical writings. Ullman's selected bibliography includes well over a hundred titles, not to mention manuscripts, papers and unpublished documents. The chapters follow a careful chronological pattern. The only difficulty with the book is that the reader occasionally loses the main thread of events amidst a welter of seemingly unconnected incidents. He feels as if he were viewing a kaleidoscope--at one moment he is reading about negotiations in Moscow and at the next about Czech troops in Chelyabinsk. Yet this disconnectedness gives an accurate impression of the complexity of the Russian situation...
...Jinx. To win at Chamonix, Ferries will need the speed of a sprinter and the agility of an acrobat; he must thread his way twice through the tortuous course at breakneck speed. He will have to stave off the challenge of such superb skiers as Austria's nimble Gerhard Nenning and France's bull-necked Guy Périllat-who swept every major Alpine title in 1961. Ferries will have to lick an old jinx: in 28 years of trying, no U.S. male skier has ever brought home an F.I.S. or Olympic Alpine championship. He may also have...
...sermonizes and moralizes and hates itself into incoherence. And, in between, it has lesser troubles. For example, instead of remaining a simple documentary, it tries to have a plot. There is a made-up story about a divorcee who comes to Los Angeles, and the story serves as a thread for the movie's savage comments on life in this bucket of human crabs. The thin story and the perceptive camera's eye rarely support each other. For the plot gives the divorcee's sufferings a point, when the documentary is shrieking all the time that they have no point...
Through the prattle of the gossip columnists, those past masters (and mistresses) of opacity, ran a mysterious thread...
Thus it will seem to an American audience that he relies too heavily on his readers' assumed sympathy as his binding thread. He will confirm, but he will not convince. (It is worth remembering, however, that he is writing in an English journal, for an audience that is more skeptical of civil defence than Americans appear to be, and certainly less informed about this country's shelter-craze.) Nonetheless, "The Illusion of Civil Defence" is a particularly interesting, particularly disappointing instance of what seems to happen to almost anyone who tires to speak intelligently on the subject. Piel's article...