Word: karle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Somebody asked us the other day on a television program, 'Gee, you're such wholesome people, how could you go around asking people all these dirty questions?"' Anne Taylor Fleming, curled up snugly beside her husband Karl in the couch in their suite at the Ritz, raises herself up on her haunches, her deep-set cat's eyes flashing indignantly. "And I said to her, 'Is how you lost your virginity a dirty question?' I mean...
...Flemings are very emphatic on that point, and sometimes they're careful to catch each other up on it. When Karl says jokingly that, now that The First Time is finished, they're "getting out of the sex business," his wife says quickly, "Well, we were never in the sex business." And when Karl continues to chuckle obliviously--"This for us, is the first time and the last time"--she repeats it, her voice rising: "Karl, we were never in the sex business." But even if you concede that point, the question remains: why did these two bright, talented, wholesome...
...Karl says there is more involved than the cash value of the names. "The fact of the matter is that since you know these people, you know their names, you can relate to their experiences. And the nice thing is that you can come out not feeling alone. Because somewhere in the experiences of these 28 people is your experience, or part of it, some piece of it, that you can recognize...
...Karl, who is about 20 years older than his wife, the reasons for writing the book seem to have been more complex. For one thing, he was not just any starving free-lancer. He'd been a journalist since 1948 and had worked for Newsweek for 11 years, eventually becoming Los Angeles bureau chief. As he says himself, he "had a front-row seat on some of the most fantastic things that have happened." When the civil rights battles were raging in Selma, Birmingham and Oxford, he was there. When Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy...
...radical groups are so small that it would be a grave mistake to take them too seriously. Some of them are hardly more than a dozen or two people with a catchy name and a talent for publicity. Their methods are crude. They are the sort of people that Karl Marx would have contemptuously dismissed as senseless anarchists. Many California radicals follow the teachings of Mao, Che Guevara, French Revolutionary Regis Debray and Carlos Marighella, the Brazilian terrorist tactician. Marighella advocates violence as a way to encourage government authorities to overreact. He theorizes that a government will inevitably impose harshly...