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Shultz's one major conflict at Chicago came when he banned the use of loudspeakers at a rally against the Viet Nam War. When Edward Levi, the university's president, overruled him, Shultz resigned. His friends on the faculty, including conservative Economist Milton Friedman, pressured him to reconsider. Levi ranks among Shultz's admirers. Says he: "George knows how to deal with people. He is an inspirational individual...
Pieces gathers fugitive articles written over the course of some ten years: fragments on subjects as diverse as Viet Nam, sex, television, Henry Miller and subway graffiti. Occasionally the old pro jabs with acute social observations and feints with malicious wit. He divides his examination of television into channels instead of chapters; he provides a graceful reappraisal of Novelist-Translator Jean Malaquais, who disliked The Naked and the Dead, but of whom Mailer acknowledges: "I had learned as much about writing from [him] as from anyone alive...
David Becker, preppie and Viet Nam vet, sees himself as Prince Valium. Becker nobly advises a neophyte buyer to get out of town and stay out. Then he admits, "It certainly was about as close as coke dealers could ever come to walking old ladies across busy intersections...
...editorial direction ... and his innovation in editing and graphics." Graham's description may be apt. Colleagues depict Broyles as an editor with panache, drive and moxie. He is no child of the counterculture. A student-body president at Rice University and a Marine Corps combat officer in Viet Nam, he is more middle of the road in his politics than in his aggressive editing instincts. In 1972 he became editor of the fledgling Texas Monthly and helped turn it into a major success, thanks to a mix of investigative pieces (e.g., "Why Teachers Can't Teach") and colorful...
...handbooks on living preppies, dead cats, inert cubes, living cats and dead preppies-the subjects of the five bestselling titles on American campuses last year? These are books for minds at rest. They are also the books favored by the rest of the nation, which suggests that the post-Viet Nam fatigue syndrome has us all in its grip. Your values and interests are no worse or better than those that are filtering down from the larger society that nurtured you. If you have not given your elders any clear sense of who you are, perhaps it is because...