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...assume a new importance. Dr. Flood, remarried and remorseful that in his career he "has hoed a narrow row," assigns Margaret's case to a talented younger colleague. An operation seems in order. Whether it succeeds or not, the patient wants to explain to her only child, Bayard, 16, the son of her second marriage, why his parents broke up and why his once aristocratic father, Pinkham Strong, has become the alcoholic custodian of a secondhand-clothes shop in lower Manhattan...
Margaret's written apologia to her son forms one vivid strand of this intricately interwoven novel. She and Pinkham had flourished during the 1960s. It was a time of adolescent hope, particularly for people entering their 30s and 40s. She writes, "Your father, think of it, Bayard, was rebuilding slums. There was to be warmth and light, Shakespeare and the beat of African drums . . . Your mother wrapped in a slave's headcloth above a bastard dashiki. French champagne with grits. See the good of it before you laugh...
...envisioned by reactionary critics but (2) that the welfare state, in its present form, is too constricted to address adequately the demands of a truly humane civilization. As for my reported call for "revolutionary" change, I mentioned the word revolutionary in the context of quoting the following statement by Bayard Rustin: "The Negro's struggle for equality in America is essentially revolutionary. While most negroes...unquestionably seek only to enjoy the fruits of American society as it now exists, their quest cannot objectively be satisfied within the framework of existing political and economic relations...
...full zest."The East Village" celebrates invention and the kind of creativity that is uninhibited by the fine points of technique, and it presents, in one humongous Day-Glo capsule, the liveliest fashion scene in the country. Some of the designers' names --including Susan Backus, Keni Valenti and Bayard--may pop up some day soon in more commercial settings. The show as a whole may or may not be a barometer of where street-savvy American fashion is headed, but downtown is the direction to go for spirit, smarts and a little by-the-way hilarity on a hanger...
...hear when Louis Farrakhan predicts race war by 1986," said Senator Edward Kennedy in an eloquent speech a fortnight ago on the dangerous rifts that have come between Jews and blacks. "Such conduct can never be condoned and it must be unequivocally condemned." Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin called on Jackson to repudiate Farrakhan. George McGovern last week asked how Jackson could "swallow a self-evident anti-Semitic bigot and life-threatening bully such as Louis Farrakhan...