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...other information about any facet of its South African operations. Ernest Cuming, public relations officer for General Motors, summed up the dilemma which corporations in South Africa face and offered a strong clue as to their overall effect upon Africa in an interview with Washington Post Reporter Jim Hoagland...
SANDERS THEATER. From Music Foundation concert. Leon Kirchner conducting a chamber orchestra with BSO players; soloists: Peter Serkin, Diana Hoagland. Free, no tickets. April...
There is also an urban Hoagland who writes about haunting a restaurant in New York's meat-cutting district that offers go-go girls with hamburgers at 11 a.m. Still another Hoagland worries about the fascist potential in hiring private armed guards to patrol his dangerous neighborhood and muses about political assassination and his own unlikely killer instinct. Hoagland the literary man, the author of three novels that few people bothered to buy, turns a puritan eye on literary politics and celebrity. "The clean handling of fame is what's asked for," he says with his jealousies tightly...
...time when the masculine hero is joining other endangered species, Hoagland looks to the circus, "the last place left where somebody can teeter on the brink of death and the crowd won't yell 'Jump!'" He finds his hero in Gunther Gebel-Williams, an animal trainer with an instinctive ability to orchestrate big cats into tawny fugues. To Hoagland, Gebel-Williams seems "to live in a state of direct gaiety." Unlike Clyde Beatty, for example, he does not conquer his animals crudely but controls them with a lover's touch...
Somewhere between Gebel-Williams' caged and sensuous art and the author's own ritual purifications in the woods lies the real wild-that state of constant tension between freedom and control. It is the bewilderness, an inexhaustible human resource that Hoagland exploits while scarcely leaving a track on the forest floor. · R.Z. Sheppard