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...apartheid. Then, last October, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered an immediate end to segregation in 30 of the state's school districts. Last week Mississippians in 27 of the districts accepted, if not defeat, then at least the reality of binding law. As white parents watched in anger, despair or simply resignation, black children entered once segregated schools and took their places beside whites for the first time. For Mississippi, an era had ended...
...guards armed with Beretta pistols on every flight. Airports almost everywhere in Europe have stepped up surveillance in passenger terminals. Last week Swiss inspectors uncovered a shipment of 47 Czechoslovak-made submachine guns in the baggage aboard a Beirut-bound Swissair plane and arrested two Arab suspects. But authorities despair of ever developing foolproof security. Says one: "If a man is dedicated enough to die for a cause, air-piracy laws and the threat of extradition are not likely to deter him, are they...
Curiously-and convincingly-Wolff shows that it is the angry rogue in Freeman and his omnivorous vitality that somehow provide emotional support for his wife and son. In his outraged determination to exact from them the obligations that he feels due him, Freeman displays a savage despair that raises the book above the level of mundanity...
...Uncle Sam. Amid war, peace, poverty, affluence, radicals, demagogues, criticism, praise, sit-ins, freakouts, insurgence, resurgence, hope and despair, he somehow survived his 193rd year...
...decades after F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise, young novelists spent their energies on books about college life suffused with sophomoric philosophizing and romantic despair. Then came J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, and a spate of imitative books about troubling and precocious children. Since the late '50s and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the picaresque adventures of rebellious youth seeking wisdom through forbidden experience have been the dominant theme. Now, perhaps, William Harrison's superb second novel-about four contemporary...