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In other words, the marketplace was already bringing Standard to its knees, and Rockefeller did indeed end up "eclipsed by others"--without government intervention.
Schoenfeld has an answer to that, and it is a well-known one, having first been set forth in another Commentary essay in 1981 by the great Biblical scholar Robert Alter: The danger with Holocaust Studies is that, in the proliferation of methodologies and agendas, the incomprehensible horror of the event may be lost--eclipsed, as humanity of the Jews was eclipsed, by a fog of categories and subcategories and rhetorical feints at ideological opponents.
Chatterbox at first thought this was an adventurous metaphor for the way Blumenthal's story had been eclipsed by the news from Iraq, or the lull in the Flytrap scandal, or by Broder's own attitude.
Only a little while ago, it seems, everyone was marveling at how TV had eclipsed the movies in terms of quality, which led to an exodus of film folks for the friendlier confines of the blue glow.
Though Deputy DCI John McLaughlin said to us that the cumulative output of the Counterterrorist Center (CTC) "dramatically eclipsed" any analysis that could have appeared in a fresh National Intelligence Estimate, he conceded that most of the work of the Center's 30- to 40-person analytic group dealt with collection issues.