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Saturday, 5:30 a.m. Hundreds of boots and the muffled sounds of anti-nuke battle songs thump along the road to the south campsite. "Quackquack! Quackquack! Duck Soup, is everybody here? Duck Soup, everyone here?" Affinity groups--Duck Soup, A Modest Proposal, Hard Rain, the Solar Powers, etc.--go stomping off through the forest...
...world, stocked with more than 20,000 wandering undergrads, harbors mysterious schools known only as SPC, SMG, CLA, etc., and--of course--the ever-popular CBS--College of Basic Studies, affectionately called NBC (No Brains College). Mixed liberally through this diverse student body is the ever-present JAP contingent--bringing Boston the most luxurious designer fashions that Westchester and Long Island mommies and daddies can afford...
...strictly routine, a part of the scenery. That's the way it appeared last Monday night before Brown's speech--the standard crowd of 20 protesters from the Spartacus Youth League and the RCP shouting slogans or engaged in heated debate with self-appointed defenders of the free world, etc., and the curious watching and listening. That much was expected--"I'm here to keep an eye on the activities outside," Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said with a tolerant smile. But the demonstrators were supposed to stay outside...
Even in bedrock New England, Eleanor Clark's home territory (Baldur's Gate; Eyes, Etc.), the center no longer holds. In her latest novel, hippies, religious freaks and motorcycle gangs have invaded the hills; developers have subdivided the landscape and dispersed the natives. Everyone is adrift, "looking for something-truth, identity, ripoffs, drug deals, lost dogs, new mates, carpentry jobs, socio-political this and that...
Antiabortion groups are conducting battles not unlike those conducted during a holy war. Through hateful propaganda ("baby killers," "murderers," etc.), harassment, disregard of other people's civil rights and often plain violence, they attempt to force their own perception of morality on everyone else...