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Like Kennedy, Lindsay is an avid yachtsman, an ex-Navy officer, a sometime Sunday touch-football player, a reader of Ian Fleming novels, the father of a son named John. Lindsay, too, is married to a handsome woman who attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn., and Vassar. Mary Lindsay, 37, has little else in common with Jackie Kennedy. Mother of four (Katherine, 14; Margaret, 11; Anne, 9; John Jr., 5), "Mare"-as John calls her-is more gregarious and much more at home in the jostle of politics than Jackie...
...Report to Greco is not an autobiography ... Therefore, reader, in these pages you will find the red track made by drops of my blood, the track which marks my journey among men, passions, and ideas...
...oppositions, of pressing and encompassing dualities. One is hardly surprised to find Kazantzakis posing problems like the battle of spirit and flesh in this way--but he extends the approach to many other battles. He explains that he views his life as a battle for spiritual ascent--and the reader of Report to Greco becomes overwhelmed by the extent to which he lived and wrote about life in these terms...
...reader experiences mixed feelings toward the contradictions which run throughout the book. The author speaks of reconciling the blood of his ancestors as his sole duty; later passages deny this. Such faults are partially excused by the fact that Kazantzakis did not have time to revise his book before his death. More important, however, is the fact that Kazantzakis habitually thought in emphatic, definite images--which he was forever changing and contradicting...
...young wife. The girl ha.s a father complex, and the old man has a Mom problem - the results of incestuous love repressed in their childhood, naturally. Hero Wylie understands their problems, but when they start an affair, he burns his notes and walks out. The reader may have beaten him to the exit. Prophet Wylie's inexhaustible choler dismisses with equal contempt sexual inhibition, racism, beehive hairdos, Middle Western accents and piped music. Perhaps it is time that a kindly cop asked him, gently, to move along...