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Inge S. Hoffmann, Scholar of the Radcliffe Institute and co-author of "De Gaulle as a Political Artist" (Daedalus, Summer 1968), disagreed with the other professors' assessment of the impact of de Gaulle's death...
...Left and a handful of scholars, led by Theodore Roszak, author of The Making of a Counter Culture, believe that technology in America has been enshrined as an end, rather than as a means to a better life. They challenge the proposition that society must be organized around the requirements of mass production and technology ?and so do the militant young workers. Machines, they say, should work, and people should live; their own personalities are simply more important. If a machine will soon take over their jobs, then there is no reason to dedicate their lives to a dead...
October Ferry to Gabriola, like Malcolm Lowry's generously praised Under the Volcano, is a romantic, convoluted prose journey in quest of an easeful death. It is not a completed novel, however. According to Margerie Lowry, the author's widow, this published version is her "sorting out" of numerous drafts of chapters, paragraphs and even sentences that Lowry began to write in 1946. It started with his notes on a trip to the islands off British Columbia. These became a short story. Then the story grew first into a novella and finally into an amorphous novel full...
...Author-Reporter John Hersey (A Bell for Adano, Hiroshima, The Algiers Motel Incident) got out of Yale with the class of 1936. The subject of his book is Yale during last spring's May Day demonstrations, when undergraduates supported eight Black Panthers accused of murder, kidnaping or conspiracy in New Haven. Hersey was no blimpish Old Blue come back for the weekend to gnash his teeth...
This may seem more than enough to fit into a middling-short novel. But the author, in addition, sets out on a number of symbolic quests. At times Agathon, whose name in Greek means the Good, stands for the whole Western tradition of humane tolerance, now threatened by the twin fanaticisms of repression and revolution. At others, he is some kind of primordial natural force, a witness to agelong woe and fatality. At still others, when what he calls facticity catches up with him, Agathon is just a slobbish old lecher smelling of onions. In this guise he represents...