Word: returning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Implied in the Nixon Administration's desperate attempts to grab the spotlight of environmental concern is a driving hope that America's young sheep, led astray by evil anti-war radicals and black militants, might return to the fold of constructive Mickey Mouse politics...
...decision to return to the political process is an admission that at least in this case, policy cannot be made in the streets-or on the commons. The Nixon Administration did not panic in the face of the largest demonstrations in American history; it ignored them, even attacked them...
...were tried and convicted for jail sentences in spite of the public declarations of ten that their confessions had been extracted by torture. In another important trial, five editors of a most resistant newspaper. Ethnos, were sentenced to jail on April 2 for printing an interview calling for a return to democracy. The fines were such that the paper, whose circulation in Athens had risen from 17,000 to 45,000, was forced to close down. Police harassment had prevented its circulation in the countryside. During the trials, the Sixth Fleet pulled into Piracus, sanctioning with its presence the mockery...
...fast and shapely adventure tale is a rare enough creation. Dickey has surely achieved that. Just as surely he has reached for something more, a small classic novel in which action and reflection are matched and a man's return to primitive struggle produces some lasting fragment of interior knowledge. Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Faulkner's The Bear come most easily to mind...
...trail of blood in the forest. No single action is impossible to believe, but the accumulation-it eventually involves his singing a sort of victory song over the body and then lowering it from the edge of a cliff -is just a bit too much. Gentry's return to the atavistic past suddenly becomes not a part of a compelling story but a self-conscious exercise...