Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mary Jones Lansing, N.Y.
Adelaide K. Jones, placement director for the Kennedy School, said yesterday Irving's "wealth of experience" will be helpful to the placement office.
But of course it isn't, and so of course the headlines began screaming again soon enough: Guyana, Leo Ryan, Jim Jones. Then George Moscone, and sanity and structure gave way to the theater of the absurd. Nothing profound, naturally--simply a reminder that the neat little island remains surrounded...
This topsy-turvy theme of belief triumphing over death runs through all American literature, from Bradford to Hemingway. It is the American's consolation that if he fails with his vision, he can persist in his belief. Perhaps these tendencies sound old and no longer applicable. Well, in a sense...
Jonestown's members are even more significant than Jones himself, who was distributed and demonic, yet only one of a thousand. Their normal humanity, not their madness or mindlessness, stands out, their journey with undimmed belief from America and into the jungle. It all leads inexorably and even naturally to...