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...Fiedler's troubles have cost him a lectureship, credit troubles, and $20,000 in legal fees, but he has just published a book on Shakespeare and been presented with a new grandchild, so he feels philosophic. He hopes that the decision will lead "in an educational way" to a loosening of marijuana laws...
When the police sent a 17-year-old girl tricked out with a hidden radio into the home of Literary Critic Leslie Fiedler, they heard enough talk about marijuana, they said, to have reason to move in and arrest half a dozen people. Two of Fiedler's sons, a daughter-in-law and two other young men pleaded guilty to possession of pot; they received fines or were placed on probation. Fiedler and his wife were convicted in 1970 of maintaining premises where marijuana was used; he got six months and she was fined...
...professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Fiedler subsequently wrote a scathing memoir entitled Being Busted, in which he blamed the raid largely on the fact that he had sponsored a campus group that advocated legalizing marijuana. As attitudes toward marijuana laws eased, he recalls, "I kept thinking that if I went to jail it would be grotesque, even comic." He had no lack of grounds for appeal-the girl spy repeatedly changed her story and the legality of the bugging was at least questionable-but when New York's highest court struck down...
...become a top concert attraction. Warbling her way thoughtfully through the soul classic Ain't No Mountain High Enough or Bob Dylan's Just Like a Woman, her head thrown straight back or tilted lazily to one shoulder, she can be sedate enough to appear with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops-as she did two weeks ago. Or she can burst with the full flavor of Southern blues, as in Eugene McDaniels' Reverend Lee, which she introduced recently to a Denver audience thus: "Lemme paint this picture clearly. This is about a big, strong, black, sexy...
...first book, The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (TIME, March 2, 1970), John Seelye rewrote Mark Twain as an answer to nearly a century of carping critics. In The Kid, he makes American folklore and literary archetypes jump through hoops, in obvious appreciation of Leslie Fiedler's remark that "to understand the West as somehow a joke comes a little closer to getting it straight...