Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...body will be borne back to Vatican City, 18 miles from Castel Gondolfo, for the funeral rites...
When the tower of desire topples over at last, Kozol realizes you can't be a Harvardman and pretend you're not: "Thinking you could escape a system, and then finding out it had hold of you all along, and feeling it pull you back." Love probably implied forgiveness, and Kozol's Harvardman, who has a profitable insurance office in his future, cannot bring himself to forgive...
Kozol doesn't develop what love in "perspective" is; how the "stupidity" of the "system" reaches out across oceans to pull back its victims; who is a likely victim and who is not. He has spent the greater part of his time rejoicing in discovery. His rejoicing is good and sexy, stylish, sometimes overdone but good. In his next book I'd like to read more about the "system" we so often feel and so seldom really...
Classifying the present college generation as silent, apathetic, conformist, or security-minded is the most chic of today's intellectual fashions. Now, Richard Frede, a Yale graduate of about four years back, has contributed as his first novel an expose dissection of what he terms our "IBM generation...
...beautiful pictures of what his and daughter's life in the Aegean could be. First she thinks he's kidding, then she takes him up on it and they leave, leaving the groom and the ex-wife in the lurch and feeling bad. The daughter says she will come back "a fulfilled woman...