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...real truth is that there is no sudden white backlash; it is not new-it has been in existence for more than a hundred years. Goldwater is simply a present-day excuse for opposing equal rights...
...weapons of modern navies and air forces are largely the products of the most modern technology, but on the ground the basic infantry weapon, the rifle, has barely changed in half a century. The M-14 carried by present-day G.I.s is only a slight improvement on the heavy, clumsy M-1 of World War II; the M1, in turn, was little different from the Springfield of World War I. They are all large-bore weapons firing heavy bullets that have rapid spin, which aids their long-range accuracy-a quality that has little value in a rifle...
Botching the Revolution. Nowhere is this kind of history produced in greater or grimmer volume than the present-day U.S., where a not-too-untypical Ph.D. candidate will write on "The Dairy Industry in Wisconsin Between 1875 and 1885." ("He must have covered the subject teat by teat," groaned a professor.) Though there are now an average 15 Ph.D.s laboring over each year of American history, historical interpretations have not noticeably improved. Pseudoscientific systems are no substitute for imagination. A case in point, writes Smith, is the American Revolution...
...narrator in this picaresque novel of present-day Cape Cod is an itinerant chef named J. I. (for Judas Iscariot) LeBlanche. A red-haired giant in his 50s, he is engaging in his strength and directness, benevolently tyrannical in his kitchen, reluctantly restrained in his lechery. At first sampling, his involuted tale concerns his summer successes in work and play at a run-down resort, chronicled in a fine and gusty prose. But there is also a grimly pathetic story: the racking hardships of LeBlanche's disaster-struck past and the haunting horror of his wife's death...
...over her. The strange light tells us she is dreaming. In a sequence of short scenes, we see the history of her liason with the man. Finally she wakes, her lover arrives, and they play a short scene together. I do not think the play really works, for no present-day audience is prepared for the stopped action, odd lighting effects, or the projection of a movie on the cyclorama that Pirandello calls for. Perhaps if one were familiar with these techniques the play would turn out to be a very good one. But as it is, it is hard...