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POLLUTION control. as the columnists are fond of saying, is now the "in" issue. Everyone is for it-politicians, radicals, house wives. But, while publicity bombards us with facts about our deteriorating environment and speakers decry the deterioration, little is actually done about...
...started on Tremont Street by the Common. I remembered that warm fall day 17 months ago when we had all come to heckle George Wallace, Fond memories. Today, the crowd was strongly in support of the proceedings, and people applauded with cuthusiasm as the Boston police, flag-wavers from Dedham, bands, and Young Americans for Freedom strutted up Tremont toward Government Center...
...species. Boyle tells the story of 19th century Naturalist Verplanck Colvin who gave his life struggling to create what eventually became Adirondack State Park. The story-and this book-are a reminder that while Americans were busy getting and spending, much of the country was preserved for them by fond zealots and near madmen...
...point, Deliverance can bear comparison with both books. Ultimately, it fails where they succeed. Dickey's spare narrative-leisurely at the start, then frantic-rushes the reader forward like the accelerating flow of the river. Whether he is describing the soft but fond suburban world that the four men leave at home, or evoking the impact of the plunging water, his language has a descriptive power not often matched in contemporary American writing...
...possible reason for his mellowness (aside from the love of his private life, a small but vital part of the book) is that his Peace Corps years in Ecuador, 1966-7, were pivotal ones in the lingering death of active student liberalism. He explained that though he was never fond of Lyndon Johnson, neither was he consumed by the vicious, almost pathological hatred for the man that swept much of the movement. Cowan was taking his knocks from a remote extremity of the system while the typical liberal-turned-radical marched on the Pentagon and contemplated the fires of Detroit...