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...Anger," Dr. Bach concludes, "cannot be dishonest"-the security-blanket generalization that all the anger buffs cling to, and one as perilously misleading as "in vino veritas." Upon Bach's misapprehension, America's newest industry, group therapy, founders. Venting hostility is so simplistically scripted as the "Moment of Truth" that a whole cult of anger fakers has developed, not unlike the faith fakers who also deceived themselves into salvation at other and earlier camp meetings...
...study, based on work by Peter Davies, a New York insurance broker who developed a private passion for the case, does not claim access to any new evidence of those tragic 13 seconds of firing on Blanket Hill. Citing federal investigations and a recent book by James Michener, Kent State: What Happened and Why (TIME, May 3), Davies argues deductively that the deaths resulted from a conspiracy by at least some of the Guardsmen. He suggests that discrepancies in Guardsmen's testimony and photographs of the shooting-including a picture of a huddle at the bottom of the hill...
...grown sons outside the house, bayoneted them in the stomach and refused to allow anyone to go near the bleeding boys, who died hours later. Another woman says that when the soldiers came to her door, she hid her children in her bed; but seeing them beneath the blanket, the soldiers opened fire, killing two and wounding another. According to one report from the Press Trust of India (P.T.I.), 50 refugees recently fled into a jute field near the Indian border when they heard a Pakistani army patrol approaching. "Suddenly a six-month-old child in its mother...
...named after the Namib Desert, a broiling blanket of sand where almost nothing can live but the gemsbok, an antelope-like creature that gets its moisture from desert grass...
Meantime, a bushman (an authentic one named David Gumpilil) fearlessly traverses the country-the sky his ceiling, the air his blanket-boomeranging lizards and kangaroos in order to eat. Stumbling upon the lost souls, this natural man guides them through his Eden. Walkabout suddenly becomes a lyric travelogue, assaulting the harsh Flinders mountain ranges, trailing the little camels of the red desert near Alice Springs, mooning under the blooming quandong tree. Director Nicolas Roeg, who made his reputation as a cinematographer (Fahrenheit 451, Far from the Madding Crowd. Petulia), shows a precise and delicate Down Understanding. But give him anything...