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Ironically his attack on simplistic French attitudes precedes his own incredibly facil analysis of the United States. Without Marx or Jesus hardly bothers with American society. It is relegated to a series of confused vignettes supposedly confirming Revel's thesis. Witness: Leonard Bernstein's Black Panther cocktail party demonstrates a great depth of revolutionary commitment; the opposition to the "no knock" search law shows the growth of civil libertarianism; the movie of The Strawberry Statement indicates artistic fervor; the Hare Krishna Society and the Jesus freaks glow with revolution; and so do all students, all women, all liberals...
...shadowy figure skulks in a doorway of the official Canberra residence of Australian Prime Minister William McMahon. Challenges, shots, anticlimaxes. The intruder gets away, the fuse in the Molotov cocktail he planted is blown out by the wind, and the P.M. and his pretty wife Sonia weren't there anyway. But Commonwealth police say that this is the third such bombing attempt by a group of right-wing extremists. Nothing to do but increase the guard at the McMahons' home...
...Harvard. (Or is it John Dunlop? At any rate this large grey figure lounging outside University Hall.) One week later the Yard witnesses a slightly less affectionate scene as FELICIA BERNSTEIN (upper left, with Mace) and PRESIDENT BOK (spitting) engage in a kicking, clawing dogfight over whether her announced cocktail party in honor of the H-R Gay Alliance will steal the thunder from his previously planned touch football game with the group. John Dunlop, called back to arbitrate, decides in favor of Derek but gives Felicia possession of the half-time show...
...many communes and ecology-minded young people have already done. Bardin is building the House of the Book, the temple of the institute's new Jewish prep school, on one of California's Santa Susana hills. In big cities, he suggests, churches might emulate restaurants and cocktail lounges by having chapels on the tops of skyscrapers. The churches could reap economic benefits by renting their valuable ground space, but is Manhattan ready for a Noah's Rainbow Room atop the RCA Building? Is San Francisco ready for a Top of the St. Mark...
Whatever the Fogg's pretensions, with champagne openings and funereal flowers, the painting and drawings in this modern collection finally tell us more about the man, his taste and lack of taste, than any cocktail conversations do. And when the people get out of the way, we can learn a lot from looking at the pictures...