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Haig has all the pluses and minuses of what is called a "political general," a man equally at home in the military and in politics. Brought up on Philadelphia's Main Line and fatherless since ten, Haig...
...wail of police sirens seldom subsides at the Academy Homes. Alpha Security guards constantly patrol the buildings, and the walls of the MBTA's orange line--which slices through the project--are almost completely obscured by graffiti. Poor, extended and usually fatherless families occupy the two massive structures which rise out of the haze and debris of Roxbury. Most of the adults are alcoholics or drug addicts. The children--who comprise more than 60 per cent of the residents--run in gangs, calling themselves the Warlocks, the Crazy Homicides or the Wild Bunch. The environment is not conducive...
...that few authors can untangle themselves from the bewildering signals of a misunderstood past. Psychoanalysis occasionally helps individual patients but offers small counsel to an emotionally troubled culture. King concludes, rightly, that even Faulkner's "transcendent" achievement in his much admired short story "The Bear" leads nowhere. Isaac, the fatherless heir, who analyzes his past by plodding through his grandfather's ledgers and talking it out--shrink/client style--with his uncle, recollects his past and so avoids repeating its mistakes. He renounces his slave and plantation holdings and becomes, with Faulkner's sledgehammer Christian symbolist touches, a carpenter. But Isaac...
...successful Minneapolis banker who said he drove his combination library and duck hunting truck into the marshes to read, not to kill ducks. We drove to the suburbs to his eight bedroom house, swimming pool, and pleasant wife. He had a 23 year old son and an impressionable, fatherless niece, whose wholesomeness vied with the breakfast of eggs benedict...
...money for the infant's funeral but then leave the body at a crematorium with a note that reads, "A Present for the French Consul." Hippies lie stoned and malnourished on the beaches of Goa: a young European woman sits for days in a stupor with her fatherless child hanging onto a withered breast; a cult of ritual murderers, known as the Anand Marg, stalks the streets for victims; an American would-be rabbi buys a six-year-old waif from her father and is shocked when she attempts to demonstrate her gratitude with sexual favors...