Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.
Alistair CookeAs always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later
Alistair CookeAmerica is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.
Alistair Cooke