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...Ashbury district of San Francisco. Don McNeill was a participant-observer of this culture, and he recorded its moments as they were happening, and as they accepted him, without any postmortem analysis or morning-after perspectives, McNeill presents the growing pains of the counter-culture intact and unviolated-the reader is free to judge them for himself against the chaotic results of the present-day aftermath...
...this momentary character. A certain amount of professionalism tempers his rather casual attitude, and he manages a degree of objectivity despite his obvious sympathies with his subjects. The fact that McNeill wrote each article without any thought to or connection with any of the others, is valuable to the reader, for it permits him to make his own observations and conclusions without having to sift through any that were already there. The author doesn't try to analyze or measure the changes that are taking place in the Movement as he writes about it, but the evidence is laid...
...difficult, however, to overcome entirely the distance that time creates between the reader and Moving Through Here. McNeill's wonder and excitement over the things of which he writes evokes a certain amount of nostalgia, but it is often not easy to share his feelings. The Movement lost its innocence in Chicago, and much of its joy has turned to a cynicism necessary for its survival, McNeill died in August 1968, shortly before the Democratic Convention. He did not live to see the chaos and disillusionment that were to come in its wake. But the book preserves his dreams...
...Quartet, the illusions were so masterly as to seem substance enough. In Tune, Durrell's 1968 novel, and now in its sequel, Nunquam, Durrell's virtuosity has slipped sufficiently to leave him exposed as a bit of a trickster. His hand is no longer quicker than the reader's eye, and many critics have clobbered...
...omission might even keep the book from being published. "I thought people would say, 'Why, Segal can't even write a sex scene.' But my commitment to my characters overrode my ego and my commercial sense. Two is love. Four-adding the writer and the reader-is an orgy...