Word: hesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DEAR AMERICA by KARL HESS 279 pages. Morrow. $7.95. Back in 1964, Karl Hess was a true believer of the right. As a speechwriter, aide and ideologue to Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater, he packaged the slogan that may have helped lose the campaign: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." Today, at 51, Hess is a welder. He now opposes war, government in general and most U.S. Government activities. He has become, in fact, an anarchist and a tax resister. As much out of sheer angry cussedness as conviction...
...Paul was blasted from his horse and converted to Christianity by a bolt of lightning and a deep voice on the road to Damascus. In a more American epiphany, Hess was converted by the deep-throated roar of a motorcycle. Many middle-aged men take up cycling -as Hess did in 1965. Mostly what they get is kidney trouble, pavement burns and a chance to act out a few fantasies. As Hess tells it in Dear America, he got secular religion. The need to repair the machines he wrecked led him to welding and, finally, to working as a welder...
Radiant Vision. Hess's life is indeed different, but his extremist way of thinking has not changed. He has no use for either of the major political parties, for it has been revealed to him that liberals as well as conservatives believe in "the concentration of power in the fewest practical hands." He was once one of American business's staunchest supporters; now, in a paraphrase of Proudhon, he writes. "Corporate capitalism is an act of theft" because "a very few live very high off the work, invention and creativity of very many others." Hess does...
...Coach Hess Yntema '76, said yesterday. "We were the better team. We were pimped by the refs. We looked really sharp in the second game...
...Coach Hess Yntema '76 switched his players in and out of the goalie position. Besides regular Laura Garwin. Kim Cole and Claudia Hagadus guarded the goal...