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...same two-in-oneness applies to Mandy. West writes joyfully for a can-be Mandy, but obviously adores Mandy as is. Like a gardener trying to force growth from a rare hothouse flower, he regales his daughter with mythology, history, literature, geographical wonders and oddities of nature, "a Nature I never really noticed until it bungled." A lifelong slave of words and reasons, he envies the intensity with which Mandy perceives the world nonverbally through her four acute senses. Fascinated by attentiveness for its own sake, he frees himself for a time by tasting and testing along with...
...sounds familiar. Listen: "O'Leary jumped around, thrusting his body at the crowd, throwing his hair back and reacting to the stinging high notes of the guitar with long, snaky shudders of his whole body. When he swung back to the mike, O'Leary had a red flower tucked into his pants, dangling over his fly like the nose bobble on an angler fish. O'Leary wailed into the mike 'Teach you how to ride, little girl, little girl.' " Later on, O'Leary plucks the flower from his pants and unzips himself...
Most important, the new atomic generation might have grown up confident that man was the master rather than the victim of nuclear discoveries, seeing the power of the atom more as opportunity than threat-and making that opportunity flower. Quite probably Japan, for instance, freed of its traumatic terror of atomic energy, would have been among the pioneers in peaceful nuclear research. Instead, an entire generation of children, all around the globe, has reached adulthood with a constant sense of lurking terror that has all too often surfaced in nightmares, or more maturely, in peace demonstrations...
...merchants are betting that shoppers will find the increased police presence more pleasant than the onetime flower children...
...tell you this," says Bobbi Baker, "I'd like to see the 99 per cent of kids stand up and be counted against that one per cent violent types. Like the Silent Majority. Where are the flower people now? Throwing bricks. Why did it happen? Why did Hitler happen? People are sheep: they're lax." But Bobbi Baker has stood up and been counted, and she feels better...