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...hardly surprising that the first novel to come from the typewriter of the 1971 President of The Crimson is about the harsh lessons of contemporary politics viewed from the activist perspective of a onetime building-occupier. After all, author Garrett Epps '72 entered college in the era of LBJ, the draft and Vietnam, and marched out at the time of Nixon, Cambodia, and Gulf in Angola, with the April 1969 bust and Kent State in between. What comes as a surprise is that the novel, The Shad Treatment, is about the mud and blood of a Virginia governor's race...
Died. Munro Leaf, 71, creator of Ferdinand the Bull in a 1936 children's story that has since been translated into 16 languages and sold 2.5 million copies; of cancer; in Garrett Park, Md. Leaf taught high school before writing and illustrating dozens of children's books. Ferdinand, the peace-loving bull who would rather sniff flowers than fight, later starred in a Walt Disney movie, and was used to sell merchandise from cereal to diamond pins...
After graduation, Garrett went to graduate school in city planning, with the goal of somehow changing society. "The atmosphere of those years must have rubbed off on me," Garrett said. But he decided that he didn't want that type of career, so he started working at the old Boston Record-American as head office boy. After a year of running errands, Garrett got a break and started writing for the paper...
...Garrett has a cynical interpretation of the demonstrations and strikes of the late sixties. "I wonder how much of it was a spring-fever type of thing. There was a lot of wasted time and a lot of apocalyptic thinking when it turned out not to be an apocalypse...
...ideas people talked about were not all that focused. I can't remember what most demonstrations were about. It shows how profoundly significant it was. There was a lot of bogus stuff," Garrett said...