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...Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were evolving a comprehensive view, shaped in great part by their own experience, of the development process. They all, for example, had been exposed to Keynesianism in New Deal days. While Keynes himself had written about mature economics his analysis supplied a framework for an approach to underdevelopment, because it identified strategic relationships within the economy, as between savings and investment and between the national budget and the level of economic activity. Another common experience was war-time work in such agencies as the Office of Strategic Services (Edward S. Mason, Walt Rostow...
...concedes in essence that the problems of America today demand more than ever a marriage of national and local government. Washington does not have the brainpower or even the manpower to resolve all the problems of local communities, while metropolis and hamlet alike lack the money and the political framework for collective action to overcome their own difficulties. Thus, as Lyndon Johnson has put it, "the Federal Government can assist and encourage-but in the last analysis, the success or failure of programs of community development depends on those most directly involved...
...which has to be continuously rediscovered, to show its expansion as a phenomenal event." His Fixed Star may recall a revolving ballroom chandelier, but his intention is to turn art inside out: his light rays reach out into the spectator's space rather than coax him into their framework...
...unanswerable questions--on the nature of any great society, on the role of the public as willing and biased spectator to such incidents, on the intricacies of cause and effect, sickness and punishment. That the questions are raised is sufficient testament to the mood created by an objective narrative framework; that the ponderous weight of available answers is avoided speaks as eloquently for Capote's tone as he does through it. In speaking largely through biographical discursions, which balance and pace the actual story, he has given the speculators on crime and criminal processes much more than an abused rhetoric...
Caught up in the balance between that relationship and the story of the murder, at the same time conscious of the ambivalence inspired by Capote's structural framework and tonal detachment, the reader finds himself stripped of objectivity. He is forced to participate intensely, not vicariously, in the public phenomenon of impersonal terror; and allowed to share in the private world of personal fantasy--where a childhood symbol such as Perry Smith's avenging parrot "flying overhead, red and green/green and tangerine" becomes a vision that enobles a headline terrorist...