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...life in the political loony bin. Published last spring in Britain, Ward 7 was analyzed by the Western press with melancholy fascination as an up-to-date treatise on thought control in the Soviet Union (TIME, May 21). Published this week in the U.S., the book may surprise the reader who expects nothing more than a political document-it is also a work of art. Admittedly, it is not much of a novel; the form of fiction was obviously adopted as a device to protect the innocent from police reprisal. It is, however, a lyric celebration of the rights...
...When I came to Harvard in the fall of 1962, disarmament was very big," one reader observed. "I was going to get involved in the movement, but I decided that the best thing to do would be to catch up first on what these kids were thinking...
This is a hasty summary, and I have extrapolated where Lasch's occasionally disorganized remarks leave the reader guessing. But it should be seen that The New Radicalism in America is a work of derogation, something of a native La Trahison des Clercs-far subtler than the original, it should be noted, since the author has no overt interest in recriminations, but still committed to puncturing the American self-consciousness where it hurts. Mr. Lasch intelligently sidesteps the more frequently trodden paths: stories of the dispossessed who mooned in Europe with Harold Stearns, then returned to claim their inheritence with...
...rinds are not missed, as the reader scrambles after the climber. There is the terrified Cretan youth, commanded by his father to kiss the feet of countrymen garroted by the Turks; the student in Paris, inflamed and impelled by Nietzsche's visions of the Superman; the pilgrim searching vainly for the future in Soviet Russia, for the past in Jerusalem, for the present in the clouds brooding over his native Crete...
...Auden's house there are still many doors that are closed to the reader of his verse. As in earlier volumes, he papers them over with epigram and excogitation, versiflage and vocabulary. But what is real and alive in this volume is the new natural tone in which Auden speaks of himself and the things that go on inside...