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...details necessary to keep it going. Probably the most interesting parts of the book deal with Seale's struggle to transform the hustlers who joined the Panthers for their snappy uniforms and reputation into a disciplined force. His successes and failures (and his total honesty about both) give the reader much more of a sense of what it means to be a Panther than the ideological explanations which precede them...
...some ten pages against a deadline only 40 minutes away, finishing so close to it that he did not even have a chance to read the story over. In the eyewitness account, Fitzpatrick refuses to moralize. Instead, he creates a word picture of the rampage that leaves the reader out of breath. "By this time," he wrote of the early part of the run, "you have already learned one important rule about mobs who are tossing rocks. You have to stay up front and stay right in the street with them. If you get on the sidewalk...
...Benchley once babbled: "One,two,three,four,five,six, seven,eight,nine,ten." But Botsford has added a new literary dimension. He is currently using listings for The Fantasticks, Fiddler on the Roof and Hello, Dolly! to serialize James Joyce's Ulysses, sentence by sentence. Says Botsford of reader reaction to his serialization: "Many are delighted they can identify the excerpts, but others think we are trying to communicate with the Russian herring fleet in code...
...hawks there have heard the anti-war lines before, and none of us came to Washington with new information. It's unfortunate that many of us haven't read as much as we should on Southeast Asia: I walked around wishing I'd gone right through Viet Nam Reader which has been kicking around at home. While talking to Crane's mouthpiece, for instance. I knew I could put him down if I could hit him with a few more facts. And all during the afternoon, you could almost imagine the guys laughing silently at us-"They're just students...
Wheelis interrupts his story a number of times with general discussions of personal inertia, freedom and will. Because these talks are jargon-free and meditative in tone, they do not distract from the fictional narrative. If anything, they heighten the reader's involvement in a story written with exceptional economy and tact...