Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alarmed as never before (see box next page), the whites closed ranks behind the man they call "good old Smithy." "Let's face it," says Asbestos Mineworker Henry O'Hara, who emigrated from Ireland 31 years ago at the age of seven, "Smith's done a damn good job for twelve years. I don't see why he shouldn't have another twelve-long enough for my kids to grow up." O'Hara approves of Smith's concept of "power sharing" between whites and moderate blacks. But who would be in the driver...
Most of the eight or nine New Philosophers, who range in age from 28 to 40, were marked by the student riots of May 1968, which collapsed under pressure of a cynical collaboration between the Communists and De Gaulle's government. Since 1975, they have churned out 14 books, two of which are now on French bestseller lists. Although they insist that there are important differences in their views and bridle at being lumped together, they nonetheless share a common argument: Marxism is not only dead but dangerous in an era in which all the sweeping philosophical systems...
...teasing. There should be a restoration of modesty in dress and elimination from the community of sexual-gratification businesses," declared Dane County Judge Archie Simonson, 52. "Whether women like it or not they are sex objects. Are we supposed to take an impressionable person 15 or 16 years of age and punish that person severely because they react to it normally?" Voicing such sentiments, Judge Simonson let a convicted 15-year-old Madison, Wis., defendant off last May with a wrist-tapping probated sentence in the rape of a 16-year-old coed in a high z school stairwell...
...hand in these novels could be explicated in the classroom; the books could also be enjoyed-for their tight plotting and pervasive eroticism-straight off the drugstore rack. Daniel Martin is altogether more austere; its story cannot be pried loose from its philosophical attack on one of the modern age's sacred tenets-"that only a tragic, absurdist, black-comic view...of human destiny could be counted as truly representative and 'serious...
...Fowles fills Daniel Martin with plenty of reasons for contemporary despair: war, poverty, tyrannies of the body and mind, mankind's apparent inability to do anything about problems except augment them. His hero tries "to discover what had gone wrong, not only with Daniel Martin, but his generation, age, century; the unique selfishness of it, the futility, the ubiquitous addiction to wrong ends...not only a trip to nowhere, but an exorbitant fare...