HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.

In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.

Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable way lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country's people as much as a moving love story.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.