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What citizen movements lack is not power, but an effective means of channelling that power. Common Cause provides a new means of reform, distinct from the frustration of mass demonstrations, which cannot so easily be ignored by the men in power...
...former Australian residents who contributed to the World section survey of the New World Down Under. On leave from our Rome bureau for the assignment cum homecoming, he found that "the changes-in quantity and quality-have been enormous, but they have not diluted Australia's rich and distinct identity...
...distinct from those wanderers who, to mock the present, dress like Depression Okies, trading-post Tontos or deserters from the Bolivian army. Jones seems very much at ease with himself. Where a certified counterculture writer like Richard Brautigan beats a well-attended retreat into an America of little more than his own enchanting imagination, Jones and his friends privately brave real effluvia. It would be a grand experience to be up a creek with them-with or without a paddle. ∙R.Z. Shepard
...soul and body, and the smell of the land that rose through hands into the house around, it is a land of the mind and all of the infinites of wonder it invites, there is no question of a god, the answer in the subtleties of colors that are distinct in their closeness, there is so much color of the land that its varieties come together in the lights of dawn and sunset stars tonight past Los Alamos to heaven, and except for the moon which competed closer, their light was all, walking in the night, over the hills...
...rather than impose upon the events to give meaning to the lives, Lukas has turned his ten character studies into ten distinct views through a sociological kaleidoscope. Individually each portrait is representative of nothing but itself-the precision and detail with which each life is sketched see to that-but, in chorus, they sing of a continuum between America's individualistic, democratic past and its childrens' attempts to ward off the uglier threats of its disputed future. "Like clay," Lukas writes, "the past may be pulled and molded into new shapes, but it is always the past becoming the future...