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...draft board members, who make the ultimate decisions on who goes and who does not, only 1.3% are Negroes, 0.8% Puerto Ricans, 0.7% Orientals, and 0.1% American Indians. Conrad J. Lynn writes in his new book, How to Stay Out of the Army: "This discrepancy in representation may in part explain why in 1964, for example, 30.2% of qualified Afro-Americans were drafted but only 18.8% of qualified whites...
...ways in which the 4080 boards classify their registrants is largely dependent upon the integrity of the board members. Their backgrounds certainly affect the preconceptions with which they enter their jobs. As Conrad J. Lynn has said in his book about the draft, "The membership usually reflects a prosperous, conservative and pro-war cast...
...twelve-year-old apprentice delinquent; often they are those of a 45-year-old writer. "Whistling, he bounced into Benny's narrow store," Green writes. "It always reminded Albert of a ship. The floor sloped. Great sacks of dried rice, beans, meal, were the stores of a Joseph Conrad merchantman, not a local grocery." No twelve-year-old thinks that way, not even a clever one who reads Conrad...
...Medium is the Massage. MacKinley Kantor has a book of reminiscences and an antebellum novel about a Southern girl who falls in love with a slave with the unlikely name of Beauty Beast. Stephen Birmingham will issue separate reports on white Anglo-Saxon Protestants and Sephardic Jews, Barnaby Conrad a memoir and a how-to-do-it on bullfighting, Muriel Spark poems and stories, Tom Wolfe a collection of essays and a report on Novelist Ken Kesey, the Norman Mailer of the West Coast. But all this conspicuous industry settles into sloth when compared with Mystery Writer John Creasey...
Chappaqua by Conrad Rooks. In a decade where drugs are commonly associated with cinema in terms of strange optical effects, whirling patterns of color, and strobe-lit copulation, Conrad Rooks' Chappaqua appears almost ascetic, carefully constructed and disciplined. Recounting the story of his won cure from drug and alcohol addiction, Rooks adheres to a dramatic convention where the drug visions stem largely from objectively presented details of Rooks' past life. This is not to say that all films of psychedelia profit from traditional structuring; but by sticking to a coherent narrative, Rooks and photographer Robert Frank make this nether world...