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...memoirs are not written chronologically. They shift backward and forward in time without warning. The whole "thing," as he calls his book, is a relief map of the Williams temperament. One particularly pertinent section concerns early traumas. The family move from Mississippi to St. Louis, when Tennessee was about eight years old, was devastating to the boy. In his mind, it became an expulsion from the Elysian fields to a dingy urban purgatory. He promptly contracted something diagnosed as diphtheria, which rendered him bedridden and turned his nature inward toward solitary fantasy. The resemblance to O'Neill...
...none of this, to Hougan, is particularly good or bad. Technique does tend to isolate people, to negate any feelings people may have had for responsibility or creativity or ability to affect the world; on the other hand, a total eschewal of technique would be a backward, unproductive step. So, for that matter, would be a total embracing of it, an attitude he attacks various people--including Harvard professors Daniel Bell and B.F. Skinner--for espousing. The future in a world in the grip of technique is more inevitable than it is bleak...
...thoughtful Jews accept the idea that anti-Zionism equals antiSemitism. Some of us feel personally threatened by Zionism and by what we consider to be the backward, tribal, undemocratic, indisputable objective of political Zionism-the ingathering of all Jews into the state of Israel...
...Moreover, the wound in Connally's back is not neatly circular; its vertical dimension is longer. Only a bullet that has struck something else and is tumbling would leave such a mark. The shape of Connally's thigh wound indicates that this turning bullet entered his leg backward. Lattimer's test firings of the powerful bullets into human-cadaver wrists also convince him that Connally's wrist would have been totally shattered if struck by a bullet that had not been drastically slowed up by other objects...
Lattimer, again, has done grisly but practical experiments on Kennedy's head movements. As do other analysts, he notes that the head momentarily moved forward in one frame of the film before jolting more noticeably backward. Lattimer and his sons have fired the Oswald-type gun and ammunition into the rear of human skulls packed with gelatin. He has films to show that in each case the skulls toppled backward off their stands, never forward. Similar tests were conducted with melons by Physicist Luis Alvarez of the University of California, with the same results. Though neither had expected this...