Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Huey P. Newton immediately defended Hilliard and the expulsion of Cleaver's supporters in the New York chapter. Newton also promised that his Oakland National Headquarters would study and respond to Cleaver's attacks...
...criticizes Millett for sins of omissions as well. He notices that in a chapter she calls "The Sexual Revolution, First Phase: 1830-1930," she actually neglects to discuss anything that happens between 1900 and 1930. Thus, she quietly skirts the first world war and the twenties-a decade, notes Mailer, "conceivably as interesting in the emancipation of women as any other ten years since the decline of Rome...
...After such knowledge, what forgiveness?" cried T.S. Eliot. At the conclusion of his bloody bloody chronicle Ouologuem does not presume to forgive either blacks or whites. But in the remarkable final chapter-having turned from historian to novelist-he turns from novelist to mystic. "Politics," he writes accusingly, "does not know the goal but forges a pretext of a goal." Negritude or colonialism, black power or white power-on these terms, history makes victims, if not slaves of us all. With a skepticism nearly as pure as faith, Ouologuem concludes: one ought to despair of men's ancient compulsion...
Other right-wing libertarians took a similar path. The head of the University of North Carolina's Conservative Club resigned to become an active New Leftist; an entire YAF chapter at the University of Kansas voted to become an SDS chapter; the head of YAF at Brooklyn College became a left-wing anarchist; and an Ayn Randist who had spied on SDS in New Jersey for the House Committee on Un-American Activities became a member...
...there is a major fault in the book, it is the ending, which limps. But Buechner recognizes this, for he begins his last chapter with a quasi-confession of the fact. But this does not make the book any less worthwhile. Read it for fun, read it as a good example of prose style, or read it for his description of the electric cross above the Church of Holy Love, but by all means, read...