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...romantic impulse toward death" prompted him to begin writing-and building his body to be worthy of destruction. After publishing his first book at 19-a pretty, sensitive collection of short stories called A Forest in Flower-he finished his studies at Tokyo University and took a job in the Finance Ministry. In 1948 he quit the ministry, changed his name to Yukio Mishima, and published Confessions of a Mask. A fierce portrait of homosexuality-a subject with which Mishima had a lifelong fascination and, some say, involvement-Mask brought him fame. His best-known work, Temple of the Golden...
...nonsense about how I was furious with Jacqueline Onassis. The fact is, I've never actually met her." About love: "Love is so much patience between two people. But it takes work, and you have to give a lot, and have to receive also like a flower. It is also somewhat of a disease." About Women's Lib: "Women will never be the same as men. They may have better qualities sometimes-but they should not have that banging-through quality...
...eight members of the Flower City Conspiracy were convicted and sentenced yesterday on all six counts in Federal Court in Rochester...
...very important yet virtually unreported political trial. The eight people facing possible sentences of up to 38 years are Joan Nicholson, 36; Ted Glick, 21; Frank Callahan, 21; Suzi Williams, 21; DeCourcy Squire, 21; Jane Meyerding, 22; Joe Gilchrist, 21; and Wayne Bonekemper, 21. They are The Flower City Conspiracy, and have been actively engaged in speaking out on the issues of American racism at home and abroad, the conduct of the empire-building war in Southeast Asia, the treatment of prisoners in American jails, and the role of the three government agencies whose offices they disrupted before their arrest...
Certainly, there must be Yale alumni who have no idea what contemporary undergraduates are like, but Hersey's descriptions are not especially illuminating. To Hersey's mind, today's college student is a long-haired, dope-smoking, peace-loving flower child, trying to get his head together. These students, Hersey assures the alumni, are really not much different from the beer-drinking fraternity types who went to Yale twenty years ago, except that they have a little more commitment. While trying to make the college student palatable to the alumnus, he has created a ludicrous caricature of students...