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DREAMS AND delusions have haunted Berryman from his very earliest writing. The Dream Songs are still his most laudable accomplishment. They are not, however, a celebration of any wondrous fairyland of the unconscious mind. Henry, its hero, has "suffered an irreversible loss," and experiences its intensity through his dreams. An earlier "The Ball Poem" reflects the same "epistemology of loss" in a young boy's missing ball. More than anything else, Berryman's dreams are real laments, laced with shattered hopes and withered ideals. Alan Severance too, has very little left to hang onto. His fight for some kind...
...moderate group headed by a bespectacled Methodist churchman, Bishop Abel Muzorewa. "We are not pressing for majority rule right away," says Muzorewa. "Majority rule after a reasonable time is perfectly acceptable." Muzorewa's "reasonable time" does not stretch, however, to 2033, the date cited by whites as the earliest possibility for black majority rule. "Everything depends on the good will of the present regime," Muzorewa adds, "but, sadly, good will is not now apparent." Indeed, the regime has not only broken off talks with Muzorewa, but moved even closer to a South African type of racial apartheid. South Africa...
...which cities of no more than 50,000 people are located on continental perimeters. No farms, of course. One meets one's needs with microbial food (yeast plus two tons of petroleum equals one ton of pure protein). The heartland becomes a kind of hunting preserve. From earliest years, children are sent into this wilderness to be truly educated about their nature and their relationship to nature. Reading, at first, is "circumscribed and limited...
What exactly is the national security, and how much invasion of privacy can be justified in its behalf? How much secrecy is really necessary? The difficult debate over individual rights v. the common good dates from the earliest days of the republic. Still, the fact that most of the fights over repression, loyalty oaths and the stifling of dissent are so long forgotten is an indication that in most cases the tumult was out of all proportion to the mouse that squeaked defiance...
...could such pervasive corruption of ethics start in an Administration of such seemingly square-shooting disciples of law and order? Some of Nixon's critics contend that he set the general pattern in the earliest stages of his political career, when he used some questionable tactics. More important, the closeness of Nixon's first two presidential campaigns, against John Kennedy in 1960 and Hubert Humphrey in 1968, bred an almost paranoid insecurity among Nixon's campaign workers. The slim win over Humphrey was a special shock...