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...react to the charge of war crimes rationally; they simply react. However, inside the protective circle, one can see another shadowy figure, unnamed in the letter, the figure of Henry Kissinger. One can be sure that when the prodigal son returns from Washington, similar arguments will be advanced to ward off any "slander" of Kissinger, such as the charge of war crimes...
...arrested almost succeeded in pushing through the fence at one point yesterday afternoon, but police used gas to drive them back. Across the street from the practice field, members of the 82nd Airborn Division-flown in from Fort Bragg, North Carolina Sunday-were stationed throughout RFK Stadium, ostensibly to ward off the unarmed demonstrators should they somehow escape from the camp...
...protagonist is Lyman Ward, a writer-historian with a crippling bone disease. His wife has long since left him. Ward describes his son as "Paul Goodman out of Margaret Mead," and between father and son there exists not so much gap as "gulf." Believing "in life chronological rather than in life ex istential," Ward seeks to re-create the frontier past from his grandfather's relics and the prolific papers and sketches of his artist grandmother...
...Sadly, Ward compares their marriage to his own and predictably concludes that modern marital combinations get too little help from society in finding any angle of repose whatever. Even Victorian inhibition seems less destructive than the free-flow orgiastic analysis that drowns so many modern marriages in sexual debate and self-indulgence...
...into ten distinct views through a sociological kaleidoscope. Individually each portrait is representative of nothing but itself-the precision and detail with which each life is sketched see to that-but, in chorus, they sing of a continuum between America's individualistic, democratic past and its childrens' attempts to ward off the uglier threats of its disputed future. "Like clay," Lukas writes, "the past may be pulled and molded into new shapes, but it is always the past becoming the future...