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...because in this community one's ability is measured by the amount of money he makes." Less than two months after the diary begins, Siegel records his visions of its commercial success, his potential as an "ephemeral public personality," and his chance for a shot at the Johnny Carson Show. But the height of chutzpah is the entry for Aug. 1, 1969: "Last night I dreamt I won the National Book Award for this diary." God forbid...
...nine years since Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring first documented DDT's disastrous effects on animal life, environmentalists have carried on a determined campaign against the potent pesticide. The U.S. Government has responded to their efforts by restricting the use of DDT. Several states have gone even further, banning the chemical completely. But DDT still has its defenders. The World Health Organization, admittedly more concerned with public health than conservation, has warned that a ban on DDT spraying could doom worldwide malaria-eradication efforts, which in the past 25 years have freed more than 1 billion people...
...whole structure of the film to talk about. So: skip the rest of this paragraph if you've never forgiven Fred for telling you that the butler did do it.] The film ends, fades to black, and credits appear: David Holzman is played by L. M. Kit Carson; the filmmaker is Jim McBride. What we thought was documentary was the cruelest of lies, for even here screenplay has been passed off as cinema verite . Suddenly, in a numbing Borgesian inversion, the movie turns around on itself. We had come to a final knowledge-filmed life isn't life- only...
...Brustein's most controversial essays, which appeared in the New Republic a year or so ago. Its thesis is that the political events of contemporary America are theatre, not reality. Thus: "When James Forman disrupts a church service to demand reparations from Episcopalians or when Sonny Carson and his followers, Mace in hand, grab the microphones at a Regional Plan Association meeting discussing New York's master plan, then we know that the incidents have been staged for the newspaper reporters and television cameras, and should, therefore, be more properly evaluated by aesthetic than by political criteria, according...
...astonishing achievement of the year," says Ecologist Lamont Cole of Cornell, "is that people are finally aware of the size of the problem." They can hardly avoid it. In 1970, the cause that once concerned lonely crusaders like Rachel Carson became a national issue that at times verged on a national obsession; it appealed even to people normally enraged by attacks on the status quo. With remarkable rapidity it became a tenet in the American credo, at least partially uniting disparate public figures ranging from Cesar Chavez to Barry Goldwater and New York's conservative Senator-elect James Buckley...