Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE, by John Earth. When read straight through, these 14 experimental pieces of fiction by the author of Giles Goat-Boy interact to produce a series of enticing illusions...
...Montgomery. Today she is secretary to the director of the state bureau of preventable diseases. A fiercely independent woman, she hardly ever sees or talks with George or his sister and two brothers any more. "Of course, somebody's gonna get George sooner or later," she told Marshall Frady, author of the critical biography Wallace. "I've accepted that. He's gonna get it. My only consolation is, when it happens, he'll be doing the only thing he's ever cared about doing anyway...
...Cleaver, author of Soul on Ice, is also a lecturer at an experimental course at the University of California at Berkeley. That appointment has been opposed by conservative forces in California, who denounced Cleaver's criminal record and lack of formal qualifications...
Woozy Notion. To this the author adds three central characters-a German, an Englishman, a German-born Israeli-all lawyers assigned to the case. At first, they seem to invite a formal, wooden trialogue that might be entitled "stances to be taken when confronted by the enormities of the past." The German protects himself from guilt by evolving a woozy, romantic notion of national change and renewal. Today's "good, decent people," he reflects hazily, could no longer be "the same people who had performed the actions . . . the horrifying things they had." The Englishman avoids large moral judgments, clinging...
...author, a third year student at the Law School, is studying the problems of redistricting Boston neighborhoods under a grant from the Ford Foundation...