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...might detract from the movement for liberation of all oppressed peoples. But Angela Davis: An Autobiography is a moving political statement; one that emphasizes that the same forces that have guided her life have molded the lives of millions of victims of global capitalism and brought them to an epoch that demands collective dedication to the cause of eradicating racism and repression. She insists that her response to these forces has been unexceptional--that her political involvement is "the natural, logical way to defend our embattled humanity." The only extraordinary event during her lifetime-her rescue from persecution and death...
...Lindbergh "represented all that was best in our country-honesty, courage and the will to greatness." It is doubtful whether younger generations could fully appreciate his achievement. For those who were listening to their radios in 1927, however, or who have the wit and imagination to re-create the epoch in their own minds, Lindbergh's daring, lonely journey will remain forever matchless, a storied victory of one man over nature, his own fears and the imponderable odds against...
Rudimentary, says Meyer. Holmes was mainlining cocaine (cf. The Sign of the Four); Freud, at the same period, had effected some dramatic drug cures. What could be more logical than a meeting of the two most original minds of the Victorian epoch? The notion is at once revolutionary and traditional. Two decades ago, in A Study in Terror, Ellery Queen affected to find a fugitive manuscript of Dr. John H. Watson, M.D. It told of Holmes' pursuit of one John the Harlot Killer, also known as Jack the Ripper. For The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer "uncovers" another manuscript...
...decade was never quite so drab or stagnant as its detractors would have it. In the grayness of the day came the epochal desegregation decision; through the fever of the Kefauver hearings the acute viewer could perceive a glimpse of the Mafia mind. Amid the treacle of Your Hit Parade, a few vinegary notes could be heard from the vulgarian disc jockeys, Alan Freed and Dick Clark. They were the early life signs of rock, a message that the Broadway melody was finished. In the art galleries, Jackson Pollock outraged onlookers with his whorls and spillages. On stage Elvis gyrated...
There are those who recall that epoch from the far side of the generation gap. To them, the '50s have a unique significance, a time when history seemed very close and life was lived more intensely. For those too young to remember 1950-1960, the time is suffused with a distant romance-as all things are when they exist beyond memory. Those who came of age in the '50s know better. To them the '50s were the embodiment of Dickens' phrase: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...