Word: books
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fellow students into the streets of Paris, is prancing around Rome engaging in more conventional pastimes. Now he makes the nightclub scene with a dazzling French blonde in tow, is rumored to be spending his days scripting a film for Jean-Luc Godard and working on a second book to complement his recently published Obsolete Communism. It's all so middle-class that he was recently boycotted at Rome University, where students accused him of "being out of touch." As the independent daily La Stampa put it: 'The problems of the revolution seem to have passed into...
...gets a stereotypical version of the key signers of the Declaration of Independence, together with the sometimes abrasive, sometimes soporific deliberations of the Second Continental Congress. History painted, as it were, by a sidewalk sketch artist, must rely on calcified profiles rather than searching character penetration. The Peter Stone book depends on the audience to expect the expected, and to bring along its own worn coloring crayons to the roles...
...dream it is, and not much of a play either, as adapted by Russell McGrath from a book that the great contemporary novelist, Vladimir Nabokov, wrote in the '30s, called Invitation to a Beheading. As this season's final production of Joseph Papp's Public Theater, it suffers from the dramatic deficiencies common to other people's dreams-the characters are unreal, the tension is nonexistent, and the humor is heavy. So, too, is the symbolism, for which Producer Papp seems to have a weakness, as in his last season's Ergo and The Memorandum...
...could be argued that the world does not need a new science, but Laurence J. Peter, a professor of education at the University of Southern California, has invented one. He calls it hierarchiology, or the study of hierarchies in modern organizations. According to a satiric new book called The Peter Principle (Morrow; $4.95), which he wrote with the help of Canadian Freelancer Raymond Hull, the basic premise of hierarchiology is that "with few exceptions men bungle their affairs." The proof? Look at any large bureaucracy...
...Lasch emphasizes in his current book, the most pressing task is to develop a coherent program for social change, based on actual American experience and conditions. Such a program would break loose from the current fascination with revolutionary struggles in the Third World, and from the facile talk of violent rebellion which has accompanied it. There is not going to be a violent revolution in America; the "lessons" of Cuba, China and Vietnam have no particular bearing on this country, and the sooner that American leftists stop freaking out on Third World revolutions, the sooner serious work can begin...