Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amusedly saddened by his own middle-aged moral spread, Mailer moves with almost prissy distaste among the rabble. His sharpest barb is reserved for Poet-Polemicist Paul Goodman, who "looked like the sort of old con who had first gotten into trouble in the Y.M.C.A., and hadn't spoken to anyone since." Arrested himself during the opening hours of the Pentagon siege, Mailer winds up in the same paddy wagon with a tall, ferocious American Nazi, and stares him down in the inevitable Mailerian confrontation of wills. "You Jew bastard," shouts the Nazi. "Kraut pig!" replies Norman, only...
Actually an autobiography, the book tells of Kerouac's rise (in Lowell, Mass.), his fall (on the high seas), and his moral death and resurrection in Manhattan. As a story, it is nothing much. Growing up, Kerouac accepts his household gods (Breton ancestry and Roman Catholic religion), goes to school, plays football, goes to sea, and comes home shorn of vanity and, one is given to hope, restored to sanity and innocence. The one touch of melodrama is provided by Kerouac's pal Claude who murders an obstreperous pansy...
...documentary--even when the high-grain high-contrast film most resembles aged newsreel footage--and ultimately Pontecorvo makes a classic statement that transcends the political issue: an affirmation of the greatness of men who choose to fight great causes, and the inability of force to destroy spirit and deep moral conviction...
...impropriety of legislative forays into the classroom and the fruitlessness of such an ex post facto inquiry are compelling reasons for the legislature to ignore approval of the measure by the Education Committee. Furthermore, the moral and legal problems involved in draft resistance are still far from solution, and the implicit condemnation of anti-war activity made in setting up this commission is biased and premature...
...Yorkers were doubtless relieved that their latest crisis had eased before turning into an outright calamity. But in the long run, Rockefeller's solution seemed to offer little consolation for a city already traumatized by excessively high taxes and strike-happy unions. As written by Rockefeller, the moral of New York's latest step toward chaos seemed to be that it pays to strike...