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...didn't have any help from the communists in those days, we didn't have any help from the left, we didn't have any help from the labor movement. I've been on George Meany's shitlist ever since for that. The labor unions pulled out of ADA when I became chairman, largely because of my stand on the war. It was the old-fashioned liberals, on the whole, the older generation of liberals, who really initiated the opposition to the war in this country about ten years...
Calley is a simple sort of soldier, from a working-class family and not too bright. Most American families who think the ADA is some sort of weed-killer know someone personally very much like Calley. News reports about "ground fire at Fire-base Six" and antiwar slogans about napalm can seem quite divorced from everyday realities of American life, but Calley is someone to identify with...
Incest, that most majestic of taboos, has had quite a literary run during the past few years. Nabokov's Ada, though not quite Pharaonic, elegantly proffered a half sister as better than none. Gore Vidal diddled the subject in Two Sisters, and if there was a moral to the convoluted enigmas of Anthony Burgess's MF, it was never commit incest without a conundrum...
BACK HOME the ADA was never like this. You expect staunch liberals, oldish, straight-backed, and supremely moralistic. And so you are surprised when you step into the gilded ballroom of the Sheraton Plaza Hotel and find 800 Americans for Democratic Action-young and fashionably dressed-minis, midis, maxis, and even a pair of hot pants. Paying $1250 a plate for dinner, they are at least reasonably well off, and their clothes suggest that they are even better off than that. The guest list is heavily studded with Jewish names, but it also includes a few McKay...
Until popular architecture makes an effort to understand the needs and the spirit of the age, writes Ada Louise Huxtable, "we will continue to have the pious reproductions, the dead reconstructions, the vacuum-packed imitations and the false, nostalgic standards that, at best, evoke only the second-hand suggestion of the artistic glories of some other age, or at worst, throttle creativity and subvert values...