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...EMPEROR OF DUNE by Frank Herbert; Putnam; 411 pages...
...psychological and mythological science fiction, however, is definitely under way. Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos novels are notable for using a futuristic setting to peer into man's past and speculate on his future. If Lessing is the Athena of the genre, Frank Herbert is its Homer...
...present direction of this country is madness." The Rev. Herbert Daughtry, chairman of the National Black United Front, said, drawing repeated ovations from the crowd...
Peace Is Our Profession is an anthology that combines recollections and poetry by men and women who fought in Viet Nam or demonstrated against it. The book smolders with old indignations; yet there are notable flashpoints. From Herbert Woodward Martin's A Negro Soldier's Viet Nam Diary: "Do not celebrate me when and if I come home. I step around the smallest creature these days." From Poet Muriel Rukeyser: "Cancel war, we were taught./ What is left is peace. . . it is no canceling;/ The fierce and human peace is our deep power/ Born to us of wish...
...killing George McGovern. Lee Harvey Oswald apparently shot at General Edwin Walker, a right-wing fanatic, before killing President Kennedy. Giuseppe Zangara, who took aim at President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 (accidentally killing the mayor of Chicago), said that he would just as soon have killed Herbert Hoover...