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...took a job in Cornwall, Ont. He returned to the U.S. for his Army physical and a reexamination, but never showed up for his induction. Now he is a librarian in Toronto, where he plans to settle. "I still believe in the textbook ideal of the waving fields of grain and the paper boy who can eventually rise to be editor or publisher or whoever the top man is. I think it's a wonderful ideal. But the country that spread that ideal got very old very fast. Now it's in a kind of menopause. Who knows...
...proliferation of drug abuse, crime in the streets, lack of respect for authority, racism-all these were conveniently stenciled "made in Viet Nam." The war's impact, goes the conventional wisdom, went against the American grain and splintered the country into discrete and angry factions. The bombing of Orientals was a symptom of the ethnocentricism implicit in American history. The great father figures of the presidency were shown to be aloof and unresponsive to their children. Parents, policemen, establishmentarians-all figures of authority-were correspondingly devalued. Moneys were diverted from welfare projects to military hardware, and in response, minorities...
...components of truth. But the war is over now, and soon the scapegoat will be led away. Then it will no longer be possible to see all domestic evils as the orphans of war. As partisan historians have taken pains to show, violence is in, not against, the American grain. The glorification of the criminal is not the product of new films like Super Fly but ancient legends like Billy the Kid. Drug abuse did not flower with the poppies of Viet Nam; it escaped the ghetto in the early '60s and spread to the American midstream...
...time. He churns toward his goals, and just when it appears that he has run over and offended too many people for him to go much further (Watergate, inflation, bombing), he pulls himself up at one of his chosen spots and produces a Peking summit, or a billion-dollar grain deal with Russia, or maybe a cease-fire in Viet Nam. Past bitterness and doubt are largely forgotten as the world rolls...
...student he spent most of his time helping to run his family's profitable drug-wholesaling business. He went to Russia in the 1920s, intending to set up a field hospital. But he quickly realized that the Russians needed food more than medicine and arranged to import grain from the U.S. in exchange for Soviet furs, hides and caviar. His success won him an introduction to Lenin, who granted the young American a pencil-manufacturing concession. In 1930, after the climate for Western capitalists had turned increasingly cold, he sold off his thinning enterprises to the Soviet government...