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...takes. But there is something fascinating and emblematic about the family still. For a long time it dramatized the American possibilities of self-invention-old Joe Kennedy by sheer will contriving to raise up a President, to start a dynasty. But after Joe Jr., and John, and Robert, the darker, the converse American principle intruded upon the drama, the principle that tends toward disintegration and failure, toward annihilation...
...armaments and arms control. The publication of Living with Nuclear Weapons at the behest of President Bok and the city-wide referendum last fall on a nuclear weapons testing and production ban are but two of the more prominent and commendable manifestations of this trend. The debate has its darker side, however, and nothing illustrate this better than recent local controversy over a global problem--chemical and biological warfare...
President Reagan promptly pledged federal disaster relief for the stricken areas, and neighbors of the homeless provided food, clothing and shelter. Unhappily, though, the darker side of human as well as physical nature was on display. Cleanup efforts on Thursday were hindered by traffic jams that backed up two to three miles on either side of the North Carolina-South Carolina border. The cars were packed with families out for some ghoulish sightseeing. -By George J. Church. Reported by Richard Hornik/Boston and JohnE. Yang/Atlanta, with other bureaus
...Fellow Exile Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his 1978 Harvard speech: materialism is softening up the West for the triumph of Communism. By contrast, there are no hidden homilies in Aksyonov's multilevel, 230,000-word novel, The Burn, which Random House will publish later this year. A denser, darker work than The Island, The Burn reflects the author's searing experience as the child of victims of Stalin's great purges. It also powerfully evokes another subject proscribed in Soviet fiction since Stalin's day: sex. It is a fact of life made frightening and moving...
...Bronze Buckaroo. They were almost all without militancy, and at every turn of the plot endorsed the go-along-to-get-ahead values of the black bourgeoisie of that time, including its color caste system. The hero and heroine tend to be lightskinned, the villain and the comic relief darker. Says William Greaves, a film maker who began his career as a stage actor who worked in black films: "The Hollywood films were an environmental factor; they created certain expectations in the audience that black film makers felt they had to fulfill...