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...freedom's place in America. Any protest movement produces social upheaval, which always carries painful cost. But a climate of resistance to one abuse of our society may bring to the surface needed discussion of other problems. A mass display of civil disobedience would offer America much hope amidst the turmoil...
...study Walt Whitman is to examine 19th century America, amidst its industrial clacking, economic growing pains, and political and social tension. Justin Kaplan appropriately spends a good part of his splendid biography creating the contexts for Whitman's experiences. On May 31, 1819, Kaplan tells us, Napoleon was dying of cancer on St. Helena, Virginian James Monroe was strutting about a rebuilt White House in knee breeches, a financial panic was threatening the young nation--and Walter and Louisa Whitman had their second child, named after his father but always called "Walt" by members of the family...
Unlike some others who have spent much of their careers amidst the eerie abstractions of doomsday and deterrence, Smith has preserved a sense of irony, and he never quite loses sight of geopolitical absurdities. "The strategic competition was not unlike a game of ticktacktoe," he writes. "If one knows how to play it and makes no mistakes, one cannot lose. And if both sides know how to play it, and make no mistakes, neither can win. After a while, at least for adults, it becomes a boring game...
...both squads began to tire, the buckets passed back and forth regularly amidst erratic passing, fast breaks, and numerous Holy Cross personal fouls. Harvard sent in a whole new line, and the appearance of Pat Horne, Janet Judge, Rose Guarino and Kate Martin brought fresh energy to the weary hoopsters...
...where the song would have ended on an earlier album, it instead breaks into a two-minute viciously danceable jam, and then Jackson's accusing, echoing voice returns amidst a barrage of percussion. In this mini-masterpiece everything that his pop promised, his reggae delivers with a vengeance...