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...EILEEN R. ADLER APO New York
...affecting their daily living, acted as though the eclipse did not matter at all. Out of 14 Chicagoans quizzed before the event, five asked "What is it?", eight wondered "When is it?" and one looked up at the cloudy sky to demand "Where is it?" At Chicago's Adler Planetarium, the most frequent inquiry was a fretful "Is it safe to go outside...
...example of Southern Massachusetts University's school-in-exile was cited as a possible tactic to oppose the suppressive actions of school officials. Judith Adler, an instructor fired by S. M. U. who is head of the school-in-exile, also spoke at the session...
...radical middle, according to Adler, is a consciousness of "something infinitely fragile and viable in the System, in its accommodations with radicals, rednecks, soldiers, blacks, thinkers, visionaries, lunatics, the ordinary." Unhappily, Toward a Radical Middle ends before the '60s do; there are many events that go without Adler's precise vision and formidable diction. They may be forthcoming. After a stretch as the New York Times film critic-a period she justifiably describes as "a year in the dark"-she resigned "to do occasional articles." It is to be hoped that the occasions will occur frequently. There...
Premonitory Power. Educated at the Sorbonne by Claude Levi-Strauss and armed with an encyclopedic historical knowledge, Renata Adler refuses to allow her writing to slant. The Susan Sontagalongs land at Hanoi or at the movies, seeking a geometry for their preformed conclusions. The Mary McCarthyites seem to go against the grain simply because it is there. Adler maintains a gyroscopic balance-and gets the work done. That work, at its best, has a premonitory power. The best article is last, a report on the National New Politics Convention in Chicago. Gouts of words, pollutions of principle, corrosions of politics...