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...march to Montgomery, back when they drove the rural roads of the South together, registering voters in towns like Waterproof, La., and Belzoni, Miss. Now, though their paths cross almost every day, the two men barely speak. It has been that way since they sat down for lunch last autumn at a Marriott Hotel in Atlanta. "Well, Mr. Senator, what are you going to do?" Lewis asked his friend, the state senator. "Mr. Chairman," replied Bond to the man who had been his leader years ago as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), "I'm running." Said Lewis...
...relative. The sense of strangeness and dislocation that Trevor evokes in this story can be felt in today's Anglo-Irish relations. Verity in On the Zattere also feels out of joint. She is a beautiful 38-year-old woman who has accompanied her widowed father on his annual autumn trip to Venice: "Without meaning to, Verity had taken her mother's place." People in Trevor's stories do not awaken from dreams so much as they fall into the deep sleep of illusion. Nancy Simpson, the ex-chorus girl in Lunch in Winter, muses about her youth while...
Realizing "there comes a time when every summer will have something of autumn about it," he resolved not to grow out of sports. "There are others who were born with the wisdom to know that nothing lasts. These are the truly tough among us, the ones who can live without illusion, or without even the hope of illusion. I am not that grown up or up to date. I am a simpler creature, tied to more primitive patterns and cycles. I need to think something lasts forever, and it might as well be that state of being that...
...they could have shortened the "Prologue" and used the space for other organizations. The "Chronology" (which isn't chronological, but why nitpick?) is supposed to be a trip throught the 350-year history of our college. Yet interspersed among the interesting histories and old photos are artistic pictures of autumn leaves, snow covered rocks, or shadowy, unrecognizable paths...
...Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are America's foremost symbols of boyhood optimism, of romantic dreaming at the age when all life's options lie open. Bernard Sabath's The Boys in Autumn imagines those Mark Twain characters as disillusioned middle-aged men. The youths who fantasized becoming outlaws have done just that: Tom has a guilty secret that sent him wandering; Huck has a guilty secret that made him a recluse. On an afternoon in the Roaring Twenties they meet again and, after sputtering mistrust, struggle to renew a feeling of blood brotherhood in boundless adventure...