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...travel to children unless granted as a privilege from their school, putting dissidents on reservations, and destroying all concepts of adolescence. He cannot be serious; yet one pokes vainly through Shapiro's overcooked simplifications for a scrap of wit or irony. Finding none, the reader concludes that To Abolish Children is little more than a late-middle-age temper tantrum...
...ABOLISH CHILDREN AND OTHER ESSAYS by Karl Shapiro. 288 pages. Quadrangle...
...gentle verse that balanced war disillusionment with hope for a humane future. The conviction behind Shapiro's courage has long been that organized cultural activities subvert "the fine arts"; he sees the latest threat in a corrupting coalition of irresponsible youth and commercial clowns. In To Abolish Children, the title essay in his assortment of literary trade pieces wrapped around "a fragment of a novel in progress," Shapiro quakes about "these freewheeling organisms equipped with electric guitars." But his arguments are smothered by his indignation...
...about the Novotnŷ era on the 7 p.m. television news. One listener recently complained to Radio Prague about government jamming of Western broadcasts. In no time at all, the station produced the apologetic voice of the Minister of Culture, Miroslav Galuska, who announced that the government planned to abolish jamming. At the Semafor, a cellar theater in Prague, S.R.O. crowds gather three nights a week to laugh and cry out in shocked surprise at a musical satire, The Last Stop. In two hours of leggy displays, big-beat tunes, psychedelic lights and slapstick chases, the production fearlessly dissects...
...well-to-do prisoners are ever executed. "During my experience as Governor of Ohio," testified Michael V. DiSalle, now chairman of the National Committee to Abolish the Federal Death Penalty, "I found that the men in death row had one thing in common: they were penniless." In his four years as Governor, DiSalle passed final judgment on twelve men, six of whom went to the chair. The burden of their deaths, which still weighs on him, helps to explain the fall-off in the number of executions. For while judges and juries continue to sentence men to death...