“[Its sequel, the Odyssey, describes the effort of one of the attackers to return home. It is] the epic of the displaced person, ... The cities are down and the survivors wander the face of the earth as pirates or beggars.”
“The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.”
“More and more lower-middle-income families either live their lives in debt or leave the city altogether. The boom is strictly at the penthouse level.”
“Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.”
