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...CENTRAL character in Mark Kelman's first novel is a thoroughly disgusting person, a haughty 21-year-old woman who serenly ignores the consequences of any of her actions. She is locked in a test of wills with her younger brother Nicky, whose suspicions that she has committed a murder gradually bloom into certainty. The book, on the surface a mystery played out at a Long Island estate, is actually a penetrating examination of engagement, of the need for people to surrender partially to the world in order to live...
...novel's primary strength is in Kelman's skillful guidance of the gradual emergence of Lesley's character: as the cuteness about her modus operandi evaporates, he forces a re-examination of the sources of her original appeal. Her apparent virtues quite rightly are transformed into vices: her serenity becomes coldness, her determination ruthlessness, her affectionate mannerisms so much hypocritical garbage. Lesley the unblinking curser of teachers almost effortlessly becomes Lesley the murderer...
Speaking before an audience of 50, Steven Kelman '70, author of Push Comes To Shove, said that there are "clearly no natural rights to property," while there is an overriding "social" right to a minimal standard of living...
...right to property is set up within society," Kelman asserted. Democratic socialists believe that men are products of their environment, he said, and owe a large portion of the success they achieve to others. "Thomas Alva Edison could not have gotten along without the contributions of all sorts of others who were less talented," he said...
...Kelman admitted that democratic socialists were collectivist, but said that "doesn't mean individuals should be submerged, or made into faceless masses...