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There is smog in Shangri-La. Stashed on the shelf of the monastery library-that repository of wisdom and enlightenment for a weary world-is a Reader's Digest Condensed Book...
...Adventure Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson." With his PhD, he joined the junior faculty of the English Department, and published his first book, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure, three years later. "The question," wrote Kiely in his introduction, "is whether ... Stevenson has value for the mature reader. My object is to investigate that question and to suggest some of the reasons why I would answer it affirmatively...
According to a Brookings Institution study frequently cited in this book -an up-to-date and nontechnical work for the general reader-a family with an annual income of $200,000 to $500,000 in 1972 (IRS tax bracket: 50% to 70%) actually paid only 29.6% of it to the Treasury. That is about the same rate that a single person antes up on an income...
...fact that the war is now over will have only a slight effect upon the reader's reaction to the book because Eye in the Last Storm is so personal. How you feel about the book finally depends on how you feel about the author, who resembles a G.I. he meets on the way to cover Laos: "An odd mixture of rebellion and conventional attitudes. And he is lonely. He tells stories one after another as we walk to the river, as though no one has listened for a long time...
THIS CHRONICLE of the inception and growth of an experimental community named Twin Oaks will undoubtedly disappoint corporatist radicals and behavior-modification devotees alike. Given the circumstances, however, the disappointment is edifying. The society fashioned in front of the reader's eyes is an object lesson, inadvertantly so--encouraging not its emulation, but critical examination of a theory of human behavior both untenable in itself and thoroughly at odds with any revolutionary program...