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...CLIVE GARCIA was photographed with his mother just before he returned to Viet Nam. He wrote a note on the back of it: "Your eyes are swollen. You've cried too much, Mom. Life itself really isn't this bad. We only have a few sad minutes, all we can do is accept and live with reality." He also told his mother that "it would happen and not to be sad." He said that he would be brought home by someone who loved him-"a grunt, Mom, a grunt like...
...died have known some doubts. "It just doesn't seem right that such a small town gave so much," says Mrs. Martin West. "We've had enough." Mrs. Julia Garcia was troubled when she asked the officer who brought her son's body home whether Clive had died doing what he wanted to do-"and the captain wouldn't answer me." Now she expresses sentiments common to other mothers in Morenci. "As our boys died," she says, "I used to feel that it was such a waste. But I no longer feel that way. I lost...
...prime apostle of self-destruction in the group is Clive, a mathematician and galloping fantasist. Deserted by his family and raised in the ghetto, he seems demoniacally set on the destruction of the others. After Stoker presumably jumps off a building and Adler drowns himself in a greenhouse fish tank, Stoker's father-a square but sympathetically drawn colonel-sets out to unravel the mystery and discovers that suicide has turned into murder...
...Iago and Clive. Following the four boys and the colonel, the author explores the minds of troubled youth and the sexual and emotional problems of their parents. He also probes the impact of such contemporary events as the Viet Nam War and the cultural anomie that characterizes today's generation gap. In the hands of Clive, even the philosophical jargon of youth becomes a powerful weapon. "The Turks like things broken and helpless. Destruction is a form of possession," he observes in an Iago-like attempt to dominate the inquisitive colonel. "War is the great sexual game. You could...
...create big box-office receipts for shows involving no visible talent on the basis of a show's title ( How Now Dow Jones ); how a star can take over and destroy a $600,000 musical (Eydic Gorme and Golden Rainbow ); how critics mercilessly destroy the rare good Broadway play (Clive Barnes and I Never Sang for My Father...