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...mystery remains a classic summer solace-and something more. For each book stubbornly disputes Edmund Wilson's famous grumble that thriller reading is "a kind of vice that for sheer silliness and minor harmfulness, rates between crossword puzzles and smoking." At its rare and satisfying best, the well-wrought detective story puts its readers in mind of an older critic, Thomas De Quincey, who once ventured a thesis of "Murder as One of the Fine Arts...
...upper house who has been in jail for some protest or other at least once a year since 1947, and who has frequently had to be bodily carried out of legislative sessions for refusing to obey the speaker's rules of order, gloated over the turmoil he had wrought. "The court has done its duty," he said. "Now there must be demonstrations all over the country forcing the Prime Minister to resign...
Wolfe's eye for social foible was mean and exact; his sense of ideas almost nonexistent. He had (and still has) one obsessive theme: the unease of the arrived white rich, the devices by which they assuage guilt, and the hustles wrought on them from below. That was the motif of his last book, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970). It also supplies the comedy of manners for his new one, The Painted Word, which appeared in Harper's April issue and has now been published in hard cover by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book...
...work of Communists-may not be aware of the rising doubts about their performance. Yet a sense of unease on the part of many Chileans is unmistakable. If the police terror and economic deterioration are not reversed, many more will blame Pinochet and the junta-not the damage wrought by Allende-for the country's hardships...
...miracle has been wrought," Gamal Abdel Nasser proudly announced to the people of Egypt after completion of the first stage of the Aswan High Dam. Indeed, the great structure-built with Russian aid and designed to harness the Nile and vitalize the stagnant Egyptian economy-has irrevocably changed the environment of the Nile River Valley and the lives of its inhabitants. But the results have not all been positive, and there is growing debate about whether the economic benefits of Aswan are outweighed by the ecological damage that it has caused...