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...that is why Charles Perry's book is as frustrating as it is exciting, a history of a revolution in thought that can give one a factual knowledge of the Haight-Ashbury movement but through which the reader can only vaguely grasp what IT was all about...
...admiral's plane during the Viet Nam War. Alex Ghiselin attended Dartmouth, worked for Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign and later as a reporter for the Boston Globe. Ned Krutsky is a strong, silent type who got his education at a small Quaker college and a house in Haight-Ashbury. Jim Locke, son of a lawyer and a college dropout, built his first house from a "hippy-dippy how-to-do-it book...
...Norma Desmond and Screenwriter Joe Gillis, whom she shot in the last reel of Sunset Boulevard. Julian is raised by Max von Mayerling (Erich von Stroheim), Norma's former husband and butler. After two dismal marriages, Judy Rogers (Natalie Wood in Rebel Without a Cause) joins a Haight-Ashbury commune...
Through much of her career, the author of Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch commanded great critical and public esteem. But her reputation began to decline with the new century until the epochal year 1933. It was then that a young American instructor named Gordon Haight came across a cache of Eliot letters in the Yale University Library. For the next 50 years Haight devoted himself to the correspondence. He became the general editor of the definitive Clarendon Edition of Eliot's novels and, in 1968, produced a fine, now standard biography. Haight's crowning achievement...
...letters in Haight's Selections have been judiciously culled from his ninevolume magnum opus. Furnished with explanatory notes, the correspondence may be read as an unselfconscious autobiography recounted in the voice Henry James found as "soft and rich as that of a counselling angel." Eliot also delights in playing the devil with Victorian cant and hypocrisy...