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Another girl, Janice, arrived and was let through almost immediately, if only for a few seconds, for she bore gifts. Janice took in a poster for Bobby, which, she said, was just a "drawing" of him. Janice came back a few moments later with a letter in a pink envelope. She wasn't talking about the contents...
Spontaneous demonstrations erupted throughout the Middle East. In Beirut, Arabs poured into the streets to light funeral bonfires of old tires, shoot off rifles and explode dynamite charges; 14 people were dead by the time the frenzy faded three days later. In countless Arab towns and villages, weeping men bore empty coffins in mock funerals, with women following behind, tearing their hair in grief...
...they rebelled against the daily necessities posed by running an organization like the LNS. "I guess we all agreed on some basic issues, "he writes, "the war is wrong, the draft is an abomination and a slavery, abortions are sometimes necessary and should be legal, universities are an impossible bore, LSD is Good and Good For You, etc., etc. - and I realize that marijuana, that precious weed, was our universal common denominator." If he ever begins to articulate a philosophy, it is in big capital letters: TOTAL LEISURE, FREEDOM, PLEASURE, etc., and he understands that they aren't enough...
...class, desiring more stimulation than that provided by pipe-sucking Deans or publishing executives who sang praise to themselves, staged our own rebellion. As good revolutionaries should, we built on the smaller gains of our predecessors: thus the Nieman Foundation bore the expense of our underground seminars, even if or Curator continued to find reasons excluding his personal attendance...
...bore no small personal grudge against these old heroes. Mailer, at a Manhattan party in his honor promoting The Armies of The Night, when we were both independently drunk, smote me a kidney-punch which may have been intended as friendly, but it hurt like hell and angered me. Styron, having written a private letter in praise of my first novel, hit me with a negative response when I inquired whether his endorsement might be converted to promotional purposes. I no longer pretend that Styron's blow was not the more painful. Still, I thought enough of both as artists...