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...Jonestown story, like some Joseph Conrad drama of fanaticism and moral emptiness, has gone directly into popular myth. It will be remembered as an emblematic, identifying moment of the decade: a demented American psychopomp in a tropical cult house, doling out cyanide with Kool-Aid. Jonestown is the Altamont of the '70s cult movement. Just as Altamont began the destruction of the sweet, vacuous aspirations of Woodstock, Jonestown has decisively contaminated the various vagabond zealotries that have grown up, nourished and sometimes turned sinister...
Teso, Cambridge Police Chief Leo Davenport, and Conrad Fagone, public works commissioner, said they expect their snow removal plans to be adequate this year because they do not expect another 40-inch snowfall like that recorded during last February's blizzard...
...battery's dead." They envisioned weeds pushing up through the stones of Rockefeller Center, Roseland reverting to jungle. Watching the parade of garbage strikes and pedestrians high-stepping in a rage among the dogmerde, New Yorkers could imagine themselves being a little like the sailors on Joseph Conrad's Narcissus, helpless in a gale: "[They] had the aspect of invalids and the gestures of maniacs...
NONFICTION: A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld ∙ Congo Diary and Other Uncollected Pieces, Joseph Conrad ∙ Evita: First Lady, John Barnes ∙ First Person Rural, Noel Perrin ∙ Inventing America, Garry Wills ∙ The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
NONFICTION: A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld -Congo Diary and Other Uncollected Pieces, Joseph Conrad First Person Rural, Noel Perrin Reflections, Waller Benjamin Russian Thinkers, Isaiah Berlin The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn