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...BRILL AMONG THE RUINS by Vance Bourjaily. 354 pages. Dial...
...this time Bourjaily fumbles sadly, delivering the important though stale news that the U.S. is in trouble: America-in-transition is sloppily represented by an Illinois lawyer named Robert Brilla sort of Hemingway-reject hero. Brill qualifies as a case of vanishing American manhood mainly by shooting ducks, going on 80-hour drunks, and snarling boozily at Progressgas pipelines and defoliating chemicals. At the same time he sheds 90-proof tears for the Old Verities: small farms, unpolluted streams and 19th century motherhood. Finally, he takes off for Mexico with a girl who can "turn herself...
...Kent State Professor Charles Brill's statement, "My God, this is for real," ring throughout our nation. You bet your hippie wig it's for real. America is fed up with all of these violent demonstrators. What a great nation we'd have if just a fraction of this hostile energy could be transformed into efforts to assist the more unfortunate members of our country...
...They are shooting blanks -they are shooting blanks," thought Kent State Journalism Professor Charles Brill, who nevertheless crouched behind a pillar. "Then I heard a chipping sound and a ping, and I thought, 'My God, this is for real.' " An Army veteran who saw action in Korea, Brill was certain that the Guardsmen had not fired randomly out of individual panic. "They were organized," he said. "It was not scattered. They all waited and they all pointed their rifles at the same time. It looked like a firing squad." The shooting stopped-as if on signal. Minutes later...
...Federal Reserve is likely to maintain such pressure until it stifles the inflationary psychology that has gripped investors, businessmen and consumers. "We have to knock out the notion that inflation is a built-in way of life," says Daniel H. Brill, senior adviser to the board. The faster businessmen get that message, the less painful the effects of slowing down the economy should...