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This year, because the Young Republicans "wanted to learn about the issues, personality, and mechanisms of politics," Lavietses said there would be no definite subject during the free-form question-and-answer meetings...
...antidote to the uncertainties of their free-form life, some young people pursue mystical religions. Pot smoking is almost universal. I.V. has 50 to 100 heroin addicts; one night last summer, two youngsters sleeping on a nearby beach were hacked to death by unknown marauders. With an atmosphere reminiscent of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Isla Vista is isolated, in spirit as well as in fact. People over 30 are practically nonexistent. Bus service to Santa Barbara is inconvenient and irregular. Since most of the residents are too young to vote, inexperienced in politics or both...
...hope: the brotherhood of man. If the phrase means anything, it must mean that man's vision should extend to the horizon of his being and not be blinkered by some arbitrary national line squiggled on a map. This is the shaping theme of an attractive and exuberant free-form musical from Japan currently playing off-Broadway...
...Free Forms. Even less tied to traditional ways than Mategot, a few hardy pioneers have stopped creating designs for factories and begun making their own free-form wall hangings. They work directly with such out-of-the-way materials as jute, sisal and new synthetic yarns, which they knit, tie and wrap into works so offbeat that baffled customs officials sometimes confuse them with rugs...
...Barthelme characters and Barthelme settings pale beside Barthelme plots-or what passes as plots. One story consists of 100 sentences, neatly numbered. Another story, Sentence, is just that: 7½ pages of breathless, free-form monologue dotted by commas, colons, even exclamation points, but nary a period-not even at the end. The Explanation is formed as a series of questions and answers. But the answers start turning into questions themselves, and of course nothing is ever explained...