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...into conflict with his own sense of justice. His mentality is that of a left liberal college student; he is sensitively conscious of race, and of human rights. The other detectives whom he encounters in the 16th Squad don't possess quite the same sensitivities. There is Seidensticker, a mammoth black man who calls Bo by his full name. Beauregard, and who is almost paternal toward him. He patiently helps Bo adjust to a job which doesn't always run parallel to written law, but Seidensticker poses an enigma to Bo because of all the detectives on the squad...
...Aquarian invasion, they have got to know one another, with the result that about 50 senior citizens joined the Yippies in a march from the Convention Center, and another 16 gave the Yips a key to the city. This week Guru Allen Ginsberg was to perform a mammoth marriage ceremony symbolizing the union of the young and old. Said Yippie Allen Katzman: "Many of these senior citizens are really hip. They've been fighting the IRS and Social Security and the health-care system longer than we have." The Yippies, of course, are very different from the young activists...
Looking like a nineteenth century candy sampler resting on a mammoth paper doily, the printed scrim that greets the Loeb audience is engagingly nostalgic. Unfortunately, the production of The Matchmaker that unfolds behind it is as overly sweet as the candy one would expect to find...
...SPRING'S NADIR came at the May 22 march on the Pentagon. Called by an emergency coalition of major national antiwar groups immediately after the mines were sown, the action was seen as an attempt to duplicate the now-legendary 1967 march on the mammoth military headquarters. Even in the days immediately preceding the action, its organizers expected to attract between 3000 and 5000 people. But as the President flew off to Moscow, the action lost much of its relevance. Only about 1000 people showed up as the march timetables quarreled divisively. After sparing for several hours with riot-equipped...
...story is irresistibly alive, initially nostalgic, ultimately pitiable. Too raw to be first-rate social history, it never really becomes the true-life epistolary novel which Editor Myers claims. The Joneses wrote of farming and money, hurricanes and family visits, a trip to Niagara and Mammoth Cave, a cousin dead of yellow fever, an uncle disgraced by drink and a woman, a sermon enjoyed, a length of calico purchased. They wrote also about their slaves-referring to them usually, with unsettling reverberations today, as "the people...