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Yesterday the NYT charted its own course and ignored Jiang's oblique remark at Harvard about "mistakes" his government has made.
Owing to my being unable to find the full bibliographical information for it in my infallible library cataloguing system, I cannot provide more than the fact that a book published several years ago by Scarecrow Press, Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drinks, by R. A. Spears, was recalled when I saw the Death Dictionary: they are similar only in that they are both thesauruses (in Roget's sense of the word--that is, they contain all sorts of direct and oblique references to the subjects they cover).
Gould was discovering an unfortunate dilemma in the profession of fashion journalism: Since writers don't feel allowed to come right out and say they "hate it"--a collection, an item--or to praise what is really praiseworthy but not new enough, their writing tends to develop an oblique, distorted character.
But to deny that the oblique senses of man are still very much with us is mere optimistic folly.
The subject matter--a group of World War II soldiers on a mission--strangely echoes Saving Private Ryan , but critics say this film is much more oblique and spiritual.