BRITAIN: PRINCE CONDEMNS DIANA BOOK -- Prince William, speaking for himself and his younger brother, condemned a new book about his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, saying, "Of course, Harry and I are both quite upset about it -- that our mother's trust has been betrayed and that even now she's still being exploited".
If, like me, you were a student of architecture in the early 1990s, you would have almost certainly possessed within your file of inspiration, along with Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities and Douglas Darden's Condemned Building, a book by Lebbeus Woods.
According to Japan scholar Ivan P. Hall, revisionist historians in Japan organized a committee of right-wing scholars to condemn the book with repeated appearances at the Foreign Correspondents Clubb in Tokyo and throughout Japan.
In this riveting book, books themselves are condemned – all books.
Even in the wake of revelations that Ms. Broadwell was having an affair with Mr. Petraeus, then the director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the subject of her biography, "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus," editors and biographers alike were loath to condemn the book outright because the rules in this area are so hazy.
Adam Mars-Jones, in the Observer, condemned the book as a literary hatchet-job.
(The Panthers condemned the book, which a recruit had created, and said the FBI had been spreading it).
There was pre-publication disgust at the prospect of a supposedly serious novel that resorted to visceral horror-movie splatter, and post-publication reviews that condemned the book as a nasty piece of work.
It was helped immeasurably when the Hays Office, the morality board for the movie industry, condemned the book even before a movie deal was signed; it became a hit in 1947 with Linda Darnell as Amber and Cornel Wilde as her truest love.
Scientists -- particularly those who dont believe that animals are capable of feeling in the first place -- condemned the book as an exercise in anthropomorphic pseudoscience.
