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These American Communists fought on so many fronts, and gave and got the best and the worst of it. As Folk Singer Pete Seeger says in Seeing Red, "Don't mourn for a fighter who made a mistake and lost, but mourn the suckers who never bothered putting up a fight." They rejected the skeptics in their midst. Recalls Dorothy Healey, who for a quarter-century headed the party's Southern California district: "What was the meaning of life? You had that answer." But those same eyes, sparkling with conviction, could be blinkered in the face of such...
...Pete Seeger, one of the most memorable people in the documentary, reflects on his experience as a communist with this remark: "If you're going to mourn don't mourn for a fighter who made a mistake and lost." Seeing Red all but praises. Like The Good Fight, which tells the story of the Lincoln Brigade, it presents a history of America on film unavailable in any other medium. Seeing Red is a comprehensive study of American Communists that allows one to meet the ideology of communism through the once youthful eyes of those who saw an America below their...
...appreciation that comes only from 50 years of trips to the ballpark. Two octagenarians sitting in front of me compare Pete Rose, on the field running but not playing for the Expos, with George Sisler, who played for the St. Louis Browns in the '20 s. And I had always considered such '50 s luminaries as Stan Musial and Ted Williams the cream of the crop. I bowed to their 120 cumulative years of baseball knowledge...
...like a school bus with lips," he says. But he expresses no self-consciousness trying out at 45. "All of us can't leave like Carl Yastrzemski or Johnny Bench," he says. "I don't feel like a one-dimensional person, but I just want to play. Pete Rose wants 200 more hits, but I just want to face one more batter, experience that wonderful anxiety one more time, and then one more time after that...
...exceptions are Leon's mother and Novelist Pete Dexter, 40, who in God's Pocket (Random House; 274 pages; $14.95) turns a random incident into a picaresque romp. Jeanie Hubbard Scarpato, still pretty in middle age despite a life that has "had more sorry chapters than the Old Testament," refuses to believe that the son she raised on her own from infancy after her first husband's death would simply let something fall on his head. Mickey, her current spouse, cannot disagree; he feels unworthy of Jeanie, probably with cause. He drives a refrigerated truck and sells...