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...Laughing is what one might have expected from Howar, The Last of the Southern Girls is a disappointment from Morris. Admirers of his editing career and his other books (North To ward Home, Yazoo) may not know what to make of it, unless they shrug it off as the indulgence of every man's right to do something silly to impress his girl friend. A few passages- earthy scenes from his heroine's childhood, vignettes of her stumping through a rural state with her Congressman lover-hint at the book that he might have written...
...intolerable burden to the new leadership of the Communist Party. In the shifts of party policy that followed Khrushchev's downfall, mere mention of any crimes committed in the Stalinist era was anathema. Friends of Solzhenitsyn who tried to defend his subsequent anti-Stalinist books (including The Cancer Ward and The First Circle) were condemned by the official press, and many lost their jobs. Solzhenitsyn himself was ousted from the Soviet Writers Union...
...most prestigious awards. Medvedev also attacks Victor Louis, a roaming Soviet correspondent noted for providing leaks on Soviet policy shifts to the Western press. The author describes him as a "special agent of the KGB." Louis, claims Medvedev, planted a stolen copy of Solzhenitsyn's The Cancer Ward with the Russian emigre publication Posev, which is based in West Germany. Since this magazine is considered an anti-Soviet journal, its publication of a book by a Russian writer may constitute grounds for arrest and imprisonment...
...accusations raised in the grand jury indictments of John Mitchell and Maurice Stans-along with a notorious financial freebooter and a leading New Jersey Republican-form a sleazy story that might well give pause to even the most hardened ward heeler...
...imaginative insanity began. For example, he gets into some very heavy slander: NBC's John Chancellor (who he seems to like) is a "dope-addled fascist bastard," Muskie is "a bonehead who steals his best lines from old Nixon speeches," and Hubert Humphrey is a "treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current." He doesn't pretend to cover the campaign thoroughly: he ignores some events and deals with others in detail, looking for an essence rather than a careful report...