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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. A collection of short stories and essays in which the author, posing as a mod scientist at the controls of a literary time machine, explores the inner and outer spaces of the man-against-machine perplex...
Abrasive Eloquence. Another Panther was having his problems with the law last week. The Panthers' "minister of information," Author Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice), was ordered back to prison for violating his parole from an assault conviction. Cleaver became involved last April in a firefight during which the Panthers' 17-year-old treasurer was shot by Oakland policemen. Cleaver himself was wounded. As a result, his parole was revoked, and he was accused of assault with intent to commit murder. A lower court later freed him, ruling that Cleaver was being held because of his extremist political opinions...
...life, had one important side effect. It shocked many scientists into the realization that they are public figures-and fair game for biographers, critics and even gossip columnists. Last week the point was driven home again by the publication of another gossipy book, Lawrence and Oppenheimer, in which Author Nuel Pharr Davis calls the roll of America's nuclear greats. He judges them not only as scientists, but also as human beings. Some do not fare too well...
...Author Davis' seven years of research and some 100 interviews were not spent in vain. His book not only adds rich anecdotal material to the already familiar Oppenheimer lore, but brings alive lesser-known atomic scientists and places them in perspective...
...Nothing. The style of many regionalist writers generates inward pressures that condense the atmosphere of a time and place - for example, the palpable Dixie gothic of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Guimarāes Rosa's style is centrifugal. Shooting out to ignite the familiar details of the author's vigorous humanism, it transcends particulars and turns events into allegory. In The Third Bank of the River and Other Stories,* many of the particulars dissolve, leaving the author's metaphysical core standing alone. It is as Guimarāes Rosa intended. The book is his Tempest...