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...couple of years ago had become, he says, "uncertain of what America had become," avoided. Kremen took off for a few months in search of the real America, having decided beforehand that "to pass through the country like a tourist with a tape recorder and a journalist's notebook would simply prove worthless." Instead, Kremen went hitchhiking around, spending a few weeks as a factory worker, a few in college towns, a stint in the South and a time living with blacks. His intentions were purely noble, but he made one crucial error: He didn't leave behind his tape...
...same time, Kremen can never resist pulling out his notebook in any situation--a drunken college party, a pool game in Louisiana, a car he gets a ride in--that might possibly give him some pearl of wisdom that will help him in telling us what's going on out there. He's always sidling up to someone and asking the provocative questions that will get to the bottom of it all--except that more often than not, his questions are designed to bear out his own assumptions about what people are thinking. Here is Kremen on his first...
...prison. The sisters were raised amid the revolutionary passions of Belfast's working-class Andersontown district, an I.R.A. stronghold. As teenagers, they shared a liking for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones as well as for Irish folk dances. Both girls were and are devout Roman Catholics: a notebook that Dolours was carrying when she was arrested for the London bombings contained notes on the Virgin Mary along with details about her I.R.A. contacts...
...there an alternative to love? In these stories, written not long before The Golden Notebook (1962)-Mrs. Lessing's broadest consideration of all the wars between the sexes-her answer appears to be a rueful no. Those who want to live, apparently, are more or less doomed to love. But cheer up -a little. Love, like the blight in A Mild Attack of Locusts, can be endured. The sturdy wind up saying "It could have been worse." Mrs. Lessing has always been a slow, deliberate writer who seems unable to spare herself or her reader the slightest wince...
Lowell's prize-winning book is a continuation of his experimentation with the sonnet begun in "Notebook 1967-68." "Lowell invented the unrhymed 14-line form about seven years ago, and since then has made thousands of revisions," Elizabeth Bishop, lecturer on English and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, said yesterday. "His new verse is full of marvelous imagery as it always has been, but I like 'History' best of the three recent books...