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...rather more tenuous success than its predecessor. For one thing, it dissipates some of its power in prolixity. When Dad goes through his brief recovery, Tremont notes, within a few pages, "he's like a seventeen-year-old . . . he could have some feelings of being physically thirteen or fourteen years old . . . he has all the ego isolation and drive of a twenty-year-old." These sound like random thoughts, not the shaped statements of a narrator on top of his material. Tremont's treatment of his mother also provokes uneasiness. He seems blind to his bias against...
...anyway. To wit: A girl stands in front of a window. A large ice pick comes in from off screen, she screams, and--cut. The announcer booms, "THIRTEEN!" A man stands idly in front of a tree. Two hands gripping barbed wire encircle his neck, and--cut. "FOURTEEN!" And so on. And so on. And so on. By 17 I was screaming "MORE! MORE!" By 18, I yelled out for the next number before the murder-to-be was even presented. At the end of the parade. I applauded wildly. Was this not expected of me? I definitely must catch...
...Fourteen protestors were arrested Monday after pouring what they said was human blood on themselves and on the doors of Draper Laboratory. Here three members of the Draper Peace Conversion Group explain the motivations behind the protest...
...participating in an anti-Shah demonstration in the streets of Teheran and his subsequent torture at the hands of the Shah's secret police must linger in his mind. But for Kazem, the legacy of physical scars is dwarfed by the uneasy truth that, for the most part, his fourteen months of suffering in the bowels of an Iranian jail may have been meaningless. For though he was--and continues to be--a dedicated opponent of political oppression in Iran, the very oppression that Kazem fought against has endured even after he had left prison and the Shah...
...Fourteen faculty members will receive Guggenheim fellowships next year. Most will spend the year writing or researching...