Word: lukases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ESCHEWING the egocentric New Journalism of the sixties. Lukas himself maintains a scrupulously low profile throughout. In a sense his book is a journalistic analogue to SDS's founding Ann Arbor statement for the people are allowed to speak for themselves, their speech and memory becoming the source of the...
But, rather than impose upon the events to give meaning to the lives, Lukas has turned his ten character studies into ten distinct views through a sociological kaleidoscope. Individually each portrait is representative of nothing but itself-the precision and detail with which each life is sketched see to that...
TAKEN in broad outline, the ten lives are little more than the stuff of which youth exploitation films are made: Dave is the revolutionist who exceeds the activism of his father, an Old Left professor, by leading the seizure of University Hall: Roy is the black, native son of Mississippi...
And Lukas also writes of those who failed to overcome the obstacles. His Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the two worlds of Linda Fitzpatrick, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy Connecticut family who was murdered in the East Village in 1967, is included here in an expanded version...
Lukas has a difficult time extracting general conclusions from such a wealth of highly individualistic sources. His suggestions as to how, following an Ericksonian proposition, "the child expresses openly what the parent represses," are fairly anticlimactic. Perhaps, more interesting, is how all of the children interviewed, with the possible exception...