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...country. Suburbia is the nation's broadening young middle class, staking out its claim across the landscape, prospecting on a trial-and-error basis for the good way of life for itself and for the children that it produces with such rapidity. It is, as Social Scientist Max Lerner (America as a Civilization) has put it, "the focus of most of the forces that are remaking American life today...
...fruity mush the customers are accustomed to. Most of the major episodes of Huck's hegira are drastically cut or dropped outright. And to chunk up the hole that is left, there is enough conventional "dingnation and sentimenterin' "-not to mention some moony tunes by Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane-to provoke the full penalty prescribed by the author: "Persons attempting to find a plot in this narrative will be shot...
...Lerner loves to provoke students ("Thrilling," says one) who spout Gandhi's idealism-and refuse to get their hands dirty in the new world. When they insist that poverty-stricken India is nonetheless "contented," Lerner snaps back: "Like a cow?" He points to the U.S. experience. A healthy discontent, says he, is the key to "social dynamism." The lack of this quality, he adds, is what ails India...
...Gentleman." Professor Lerner has never confined his lectures to the classroom. At frequent dinner parties ("Max's seminars"), he probes and harries top Indian leaders like a one-man Meet the Press. In his seven months in New Delhi he has also reported India's (and Asia's) slow awakening to the meaning of Red China. "For the first time," he wrote in one column, "they are coming to understand that the true imperialists may actually be Asians...
...Lerner has even done his bit toward the awakening. Fortnight ago he cornered leftward Defense Minister Krishna Menon, got him to admit that the "unknown" planes buzzing India's frontier were, of course, Red China's. Front-paged in India, Lerner's 'story evoked angry opposition questions, a fudging denial from Menon. Huffed Menon: "Lerner is no gentleman. An English journalist would never report what was said over tea." This week Lerner will end his double educational mission in India by covering the Nehru-Chou talks and holding his last seminar. He leaves with mixed feelings...