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...that have divided the School. Quick, decisive action by the full faculty faces many obstacles, and referral to another committee within the GSD would delay the already unjustly long appeal process. Chester Hartman says he expects little from the Design School; he has already resigned himself to continuing his odyssey to the University president and, perhaps, beyond that to the courts and the AAUP...
That quiet drama ended a 19½-month chase-one of the longest and most intensive in U.S. history-and climaxed a bizarre odyssey that had a special and disturbing fascination for Americans. They had been appalled by the violence of the whole affair: the strong-arm kidnaping near a college campus, then the bank robbery in which Patty herself wielded a gun, then the surrealistic, nationally televised shootout that left six of her companions dead. With some apprehension, parents debated just why Patty, the heiress to a celebrated fortune, had become a self-proclaimed revolutionary. Many people claimed...
...Rourke hustles the outraged Gifford on. "Believe it or not," he explains, "they wouldn't want us to interfere. Not even the kid." Gifford responds to this fractured and isolationist image by blindly attempting to establish feeling contact with some of the warped souls he encounters in this "odyssey," as he calls it. It is not enough to see Kimberly Ann Regan's girl-friend cry and lament her own suffering over a pastromi sandwich during lunch-hour, then leave her for other witnesses. He must call her back, days later, past 3 a.m. in the morning, to find...
...Tokyo-including a few spur lines of the moment-and then back again? This notion would no doubt horrify the hapless U.S. rail commuter and send him reeling back to the bar car. Yet in late 1973 Novelist Paul Theroux 35, spent four months chugging over just such an odyssey. Surprisingly, he not only survived but entertainingly tells the tale...
Anate Win Observed, 4, 7:15, 10:30 p.m.: The Henry Miller Odyssey...