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FREAKS by Leslie Fiedler; Simon & Schuster; 367pages...
...Peter De Vries character once described a literary intellectual as the sort who put his audience into a bathysphere and took them down three feet. He could not have met Leslie Fiedler, who, along with Norman Mailer, is one of the most daring skinny-dippers in U.S. literary and social criticism. Throughout a long career that includes some brilliant fiction (Nude Croquet, 1969), Fiedler has boldly led his readers down whirlpools of the national subconscious. In Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), he argued that the country's literature was obsessed with death and therefore incapable...
...beginning to ease, but for reasons having little to do with racial broadmindedness. First, rather than have their children bused under court order to schools in west Los Angeles, up to 45 minutes away, some white residents would prefer to have more blacks within the valley. Says Mrs. Bobbi Fiedler, who won election to the school board last spring on an antibusing platform: "Most of the people I know are more concerned about losing control of where their kids attend school than about who moves...
Moreover, the gerontocratic lobby likes to point to such distinguished individuals as Conductor Arthur Fiedler (82), Comedian George Burns (81), Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover (77) and Anthropologist Margaret Mead (75) as examples of people whose bright talents are burnished with age. As might be expected, Margaret Mead has advanced an intriguing theory about life expectancy in the U.S. "One reason women live longer than men," she says, "is that they can continue to do something they are used to doing, whereas men are abruptly cut off, whether they are admirals or shopkeepers...
...49th Independence Day appearance, the Boston Pops, under the masterful baton of maestro Arthur Fiedler, sparked the evening festivities with a 90-minute concert of marches, popular tunes and classical works...