Word: delusionals
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It all proves once again that passions and issues are ephemeral and that, as the late Philip Rahv, an editor and longtime student of the American left, knew, radical movements in the U.S. are cyclical. Once, the generation of the New Left and counterculture believed that its youth, like the...
Tsuga 's Children is a novel that was bound to be written in a time of lowered sights and the repackaging of conventional verities. Thomas Williams, who won the National Book Award in 1975 for The Hair of Harold Roux, now gives us a fantasy spun from the loose...
But there is a point shortly after beginning A Book of Common Prayer when it becomes obvious that, notwithstanding Harper's excerpt, this is not just another Patricia Hearst fixation. Indeed, Harper's selection from the book does not do Didion's novel justice. The book centers on a wealthy...
Whatever settlements are reached in the U.S. must, of course, be weighed by Congress. Congress should be able to be fair without suffering the delusion that the country can really be given back to the Indians. The time for that passed forever with the vanishing of the pioneers who took...
BLACK AFRICANS have tended to show the same wariness, suspecting that Young's presence in the U.N. will be mostly symbolic, and perhaps only a palliative. And even if Young's contribution proves to be more than superficial, his color may paradoxically work against him, much as the Jewish origins...