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Burns, coyly, never identifies them fully.
But as Drew Westen, a liberal psychology professor at Emory University wrote in The Times on Sunday, puzzling about what has happened to his former hero's passion, the president never identifies the villains who cause our epic problems.
He's good, in his roundabout way, at telling you what happened (though he never identifies his cancer, and only hints that it's in remission), but not so good at analyzing it.
For unexplained reasons he never identifies any of the people he dosses down with either by their full names – generally the first writerly rule of giving identity to the faceless – or with precise biographical detail.
The whole thing was captured on video, and it's abundantly clear that the problem was the attitude of the officer and not of Moats, who never identifies himself as a football player and says "yes, sir" many more times than anyone who's not actually in boot camp should have to.
He offers only the barest of biography, and never identifies S. by his real name in the book — even though S. had been dead for a decade when Luria published his study and his memory feats were already well known in the U.S.S.R. Exactly how S. died, or what he was doing in his later years, Luria doesn't say.
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