With five of the 10 largest banks in California now Japanese owned, and with Japanese companies building factories all across the country, Americans are beginning to see hobgoblins "Our kids will be slaves to foreign interests" one U. S. (Think how much less satisfying most of Seamus Heaney's poems would be if he had permitted himself the looseness of free verse) On the other hand, there are times when the casual, the inconsequential, the ragged-edged approach is more apt, and it is no doubt heartening for a poet to know that he has both techniques at his disposal. The danger comes when the freedom of free verse gets out of hand, and the so-called poetry begins to resemble prose arbitrarily chopped into lines. Forster, she polished the manuscript, eliminating repetitious or boring items and adding transitions, anecdotes and explanations. Tradition teaches that these words from the Yuki Indians translate to "great white impenetrable mountains to the north" The truly distinctive history of this 12-year-old publishing concern is featured this month in a retrospective exhibit in the Department of Special Collections at the UCLA Research Library.
Yet, while it is true that there are many amusing episodes, and a couple of hilarious ones, this is only one way to read the work. Reischauer's secret: She is a sensitive and skillful biographer and storyteller In a book full of charm and insight, Mrs. Now Arion Press of San Francisco has added a splendid dimension by offering the heroine Rose's adventures in a rose-red round format, together with a more conventional square-shaped essay on its publishing history, "The World Is Not Flat" For whimsical effect, there is a red-and-blue balloon-all three packaged together in a rose-pink box. Recognizing that the tale is horror enough, Jonathan Coleman writes in a straightforward style that recalls Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" His direct approach has won the book more plaudits than another, showier telling of the horror story, Shana Alexander's "Nutcracker" Herzl, Amos Elon (Schocken: $12. 95) is expansive, illustrating how social, political and historical forces influenced Theodor Herzl's campaign to establish a Jewish state, yet detailed enough to capture little curiosities, such as a quote Herzl inscribed in a school notebook: "We are nothing. The crisis between them, when it comes, is a sharp, violent battle whose outcome seems inevitable from the start. He's an idealist, slow to act, prone to the whims of his friends.
The book's own achievement is its brief and clear explanation of the growth of the Japanese banks as they furnished the capital for Japanese business in the postwar period. For a while, Joe functions as great lover and much-needed disciplinarian. Lisa Grunwald always was "a morbid little kid" Her greatest wish, she'd tell her parents, was that they would die in a plane crash together rather than either of them dying alone. Taping her diaphragm to the bathroom mirror, she makes a memorable exit from a marriage that is a long, drunken blur. But thinking in a second language is not the same as feeling it-knowing from birth both its cadences and the informing social context. The crisis between them, when it comes, is a sharp, violent battle whose outcome seems inevitable from the start.
It is a Troll Book Club selection, and both British rights and paperback rights have already been sold. Noam Chomsky argues the first; namely, that American imperialism in its decline has lashed out with unprecedented viciousness at its Third World challengers. I found more amusing the Duke of Bedford's suggestion that Getty habitually looked as lugubrious as he did because he had had a face-lift operation on the cheap from a ship's surgeon, and it had gone wrong. These problems are avoided by a cohort study of cancer incidence in which all Mormon families in a fallout area are identified, followed forward in time and their cancer experience compared to all Mormon families in Utah.
Its brief chapters, cryptic and repetitive dialogue (occasionally declining into unintentional parody of Hemingway, and shifts of perspective make this short book seem less coherent and important on a first reading than it ultimately proves to be. In this age of feminism and equal opportunity, Sturgeon writes strictly from the male point of view. While New Zealand's suburban kids were struggling with phonetics, Ashton-Warner's "backward" 7-year-olds were writing pagelong essays each day. In this sixth collection of poems, "Local Time" Dunn continues his theme of survival, but with almost no belief left in himself as a magician, and the result is a book which might seem disappointing to his readers who loved the richness of his earlier poems. Weaver, a Fortune writer and Harvard professor, actually has two separate stories here. Nicholson points out that this generation's contributions to its village churches is little more than "tatty children's corners and carpets of too gorgeous a blue" Blenheim Revisited by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd (Beaufort: $16. 95; 256 pp, indexed) is a sort of Upstairs-Downstairs at Blenheim Castle, of which Sir Winston Churchill once said, "At Blenheim I took two very important decisions, to be born and to marry (Clementine Hozier, whom he courted there" This volume by the former editor of Burke's Peerage publications is a frequently titillating look at the history, scandals, squabbles and financial woes of the titled folk who have called Blenheim home.
Having seen executives involved in situations like that which Roderick faces, I am inclined to be a bit more sympathetic. Americans "have so arranged life that a man may have a home, a family, love, companionship, domesticity, and fatherhood, yet remain an active citizen; a woman must 'choose; either live alone, unloved, unaccompanied, uncared for, homeless, childless, with her work in the world for sole consolation, or give up all world service for the joys of love, motherhood and domestic service" Although those particular words were written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1897, Hewlett finds them bleakly applicable today, after nearly a century of agitation, rhetoric and ill-deserved self-congratulation. There are no women in her vision, it's as if all the mothers have died of some plague" In "Useful Ceremonies" we have another refugee from marriage in Becky who journeys to her sister's house and while collecting books for a charity meets the older Flexners who have their own floundering marriage "Flexner is killing me My husband, Lou Flexner, is crazy and trying to kill me Please help" This is the message Mrs Flexner leaves in a book for Becky to find. English and Bible study go hand in hand to the pulpit for a priesthood of all believers obliged to preach and proselytize"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32.