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...which he talks about how he's got a universe in his head, maybe three times, where he imagines multitudes of people lurking around in his head and, I think, some he knows and some he doesn't. They're the people he thinks about, the people who infest his dreams. Sometimes he thinks he wants to get them all out in the open, like a policeman and line them up to see who they are. That's the kind of thing, I think, a schizophrenic would have. Except Slocum never is a schizophrenic; it's a schizoid formation, which...
...outset, Mundome's principal character seems to be one of those pretentiously arch, self-preoccupied creatures-remotely derived from Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, and strained through the literary strictures of French neorealism-who infest European fiction. His name is Richard. He is a library archivist in charge of, yes, "fugitive and ephemeral materials." He is also the kind of man who will say, "Things are sometimes what they seem." But before the reader can begin to snarl or groan this incipient literary hedgehog changes into a devoted brother. His pretty sister Meg has just come home after...
...Work. Picasso's immense facility and control of gesture is still there; the wit, the Aristophanic irony, the ebullience and the capacity to fix an image remain. But he is apparently so infatuated with the spectacle of his own prodigious improvisation that, by one of the paradoxes that infest his life, he cannot focus it in any significant way. Picasso's reign over his images is such that no resistances are left-and that is his problem. Most of Picasso's variations on Velásquez's Las Meninas, Manet...
Separatist trends are possibly much harsher among even younger blacks. Racial tensions infest all too many high schools (as well as the armed forces); a segment of young blacks has become totally alienated from America, even from other blacks. Many of the kids, says Dan Watts, editor and publisher of Liberator magazine, "are a lot more married to the Third World." Moreover, they "are not talking about what happens tomorrow. They couldn't care less." Their anger is cold; they cynically, knowingly, discuss "the system" and its inequities...
...that the rhetoric of ecology too often makes the subject look like a confused mix of unrelated alarms and issues. In fact, most of the issues are interrelated. The DDT that kills birds and fish may seem remote in importance when compared with the rats and garbage that infest ghetto slums. Yet both DDT and rats directly degrade the quality of U.S. life. Nevertheless, some aspects of the environmental problem are clearly more pressing than others. For example, public-health and land-use planning should rank higher than campaigns against litter and noise. Curbing carbon monoxide in cities is more...