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...even if she dies forthwith) while Harvard classicists are still back in the middle ages translating Greek. Then there's Yale law professor Charles A. Reich (all of whose students, the Times exclaims, call him "Charley"), who reports in his book, The Greening of America (currently churning off the Random House presses at a rate of 15,000 a week), that the machinery of Corporate America is destroying itself and that we should all await with him the inevitable emergence-like grass through the cracks in the sidewalk-of a new Consciousness of love, blue jeans and rock music...
DAVID REES AMONG OTHERS by Anthony West. 309 pages. Random House...
Princess from Poteet. Lady Bird describes her life and job in relentless and often random detail, but the mass of minutiae finally creates a greater impact than would a more structured and selective account: choreographing state visits and congressional receptions, greeting everyone from the strawberry princess from Poteet to the descendants and collaterals of the previous 34 presidential families, planning the clothes, planting the trees, patiently acquiring art and artifacts for the White House...
...morning the bodies of Frosch and Sawada were found. They had been savagely beaten in the neck and head, then shot repeatedly in the chest. No bloodstains were found in the car, indicating the execution had been performed after the crash. It was a reminder that, in this most random of wars, no risk can ever be completely calculated...
...British philosopher Isaiah Berlin once divided thinkers into Hedgehogs and Foxes. The Fox roams freely, a random chaser of unknown intellectual scents, a case of pure curiosity organized only by the zigzag of the hunt. The Hedgehog bounds his territory, reduces it to a unity. He starts with his own terms and squeezes the universe inside them...