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...relatively evenhanded portrayal of Stone's politics. At one point, Stone, a former communist anarchist, ridicules Nixon's pose as peacemaker: "He thinks he's Mahatma Nixon, a man in a loin cloth." But later, Stone, the self-proclaimed "counterrevolutionary," wonders aloud before a student audience whether youthful revolutionary fervor might not be the product of unresolved adolescent crises. Without criticizing Stone's published work in depth, Bruck at least does justice to his subject's conflicting impulses...
Thomas "Satch" Sanders wants another Great Awakening to shake Harvard out of its complacency. Like the Puritan revivalist Jonathan Edwards of almost two and a half centuries ago, Sanders would like to see a little fervor in the meetinghouse...
With the comet Kahouteck, a new fervor of denial is called for and the bigs cars which once paraded by the ocean's edge are suddenly forgotten in this new age, ashtrays big as bathtubs unfulfilled. The new car aerosol, eau de new car, settles feebly into the floormats, unsmelled. These cars to be remaindered. Their loss to the nation would in a sense be a measure of the boy's unfulfilled responsibility, a symbol of his removal from the social machinery. His capacity to do good for his fellow citizens was as fleeting as the tire tracks...
...classic imperialism of outright colonies, governors-general and armed garrisons has ended. A few tattered remnants have survived, such as the three Portuguese colonies in Africa, but the great majority of Third World nations won their independence in the great wave of nationalist fervor and imperial retrenchment that swept the world in the two decades after the end of World War II. Nominal independence for many Third World nations has changed the character of the imperialism Lenin described. It has not ended...
Public opinion toward the President has turned as chill as the autumn air in New England. On the many college campuses that crisscross the region, the issue of impeachment is reviving some of the protest fervor of the anti-Viet Nam War days. What has been the topic of dining-hall conversation for some time has now become the subject of polls, petitions and street placards...