Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...young mothers, lots of children, and swarms of press. (I'm press too: summer job reporting for New York Post, but reluctant to use press card. For one thing, without it it's easier to believe in my own integrity-two years of attending all Harvard demonstrations with a notebook, dutifully recording each friend expelled by CRR, leaves bad taste. For another thing, my press card says Nancy O'Sullivan, who as far as I know does not exist). Reporters gather eagerly around young mothers, and pat children in passing. Old man hawks American flags, pins, pennants, or car decals...
...Central Park. The march down Fifth Ave, is scheduled to begin at 5:30; 5 p. m. now and my feet hurt. Already the crowds fill the street, lining up along sidewalks behind police lines, waiting to watch. "Madness, confusion, police clearing streets," I write in my little notebook. A young boy, 13 or 14, is defending the women passionately toa group of angry men, all shouting at him. He grins at me when I stop to watch. "Gee, and this morning I didn't even believe in Women's Liberation...
...WHILE I march with a group that looks like my Cambridge friends, with NLF flag and Right On With Weatherwomen banner, and am suddenly terribly homesick. It's been a long summer, my friends are scattered across the country. I'm walking alone down Fifth Ave., carrying a notebook. One of these women (I must admit, I don't really think of people my age as men and women, still) sees my notes, is suspicious. I mention the CRIMSON, but also the Post; she warns me. "This is not a bourgeois women's movement. It's OK to write something...
...that reveal Williams struggling for what he called an "intense vision of the facts" -a style and form that would do justice to both his imagination and his reality. Scribbled between patients or late at night, these pages have the fascinating openness and vulnerability of a writer's notebook. In these five works, produced between the ages of 34 and 48, he took on the calculated gamble of nearly automatic writing: all or nothing. "I let the imagination have its own way to see if it could save itself...
Bruno Bettelheim, recently used Portnoy's Complaint as the basis for a fictional analyst's notebook. Portnoy's problem, wrote Bettelheim, was not excessive hatred of a smothering, domineering Jewish mother, but the complete reverse ?excessive love and dependence on her. In these terms, Gould's current life-style is reminiscent of his childhood, and his current burst of show business activity could conceivably be an effort to live up to his mother's expectations...