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Richard A. Brand Iowa City, Iowa Vietnam resounds as a defining and pivotal period in U.S. history [COVER, April 24]. Americans shouldn't believe for a moment that we and the world haven't learned from this episode. Mankind's evolution owes much to the images of past wars and devastation, and we have become sophisticated enough to use those images as reference points in determining our future behavior...
This he repeatedly demonstrates with his furiously maintained belief that coffee is loathsome, a blight on mankind. By his own account, he does not simply disdain coffee; he rages against it, preaches of its evils, overturns coffee urns in restaurants. He breaks up a marriage to a beautiful, intelligent and adoring woman because she backslides and drinks the foul stuff. Et, for several hundred pages, some very peculiar cetera...
Rand, a champion of individualism, advocates the very values that made this country into the greatest, most noble country in the history of mankind. In her philosophy she also explains why straying from these values will lead to disastrous results...
...Celebrations Begin!, for example, is a cheerful little picture book about a Nazi concentration camp. Its characters--ragged, emaciated children with shaved heads--are relentlessly upbeat, in keeping with the theme of the story, as explained on the book jacket: "a moving testament to all that is good in mankind...
Considering that Auschwitz is the distillation of all that is evil in mankind, the result is a volume of grotesque moral confusion. The very intent of the book--to bring the Holocaust to seven-year-olds without being depressing--is absurd, and so Celebrations becomes the reductio ad absurdum of this genre of young people's realism: at once confused, dishonest, disturbing and false...