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...strength of David Halberstam's The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy (Random House; $4.95) lies in a felicity of language and a feeling for the political and social unease in the U.S. as the election of 1968 approached. (Halberstam, now 35 and an editor of Harper's magazine, won a Pulitzer prize for his 1963 New York Times coverage of Viet Nam.) He begins his account in the late summer of 1967 with a meeting between Bobby and Allard Lowenstem, a leader of the gathering anti-Johnson forces. He follows the Senator through his doomed campaign, ending with...
...choice of pushing on out toward the stars, much as the "classic" science fiction writers had depicted us. Or we could, as a species of intelligent beings, tool up for--well, something else. Maybe it is, as one of the reviewers of "2001--A Space Odyssey" seems to think, a Teilhard du Chardin-like leap of consciousness, a transfiguration into an all-pervasive incorporeal intelligence. Perhaps it is something not nearly so romantic; maybe just learning to like and respect each other and beginning to live on this planet at peace with ourselves...
Eric Siegel, 25, who built his first closed-circuit TV system out of spare parts ten years ago, showed a 21-minute tape of classical and Beatles music accompanied by glowing visual abstractions that he dubs Psychedelevision in Color. Closer to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey than to Walt Disney's Fantasia, it is the sort of work that might well fill the extra channels on the cable antenna systems of the future. Eager to "take the waste out of the wasteland," Thomas Tadlock, 28, spent two years and a patron...
President NAP fares better in his Vanitas with an odyssey to Ice Station Zebra accompanied by a Baton Rouge townie ("I peered at reflection in his jacket."). Zebra Lampon-style runs 6 months (the intermissions "scheduled to coincide with the migrations of the hummingbird"), and the article offers if nothing else a telling indirect observation of the director's style: "For the next five months or so the actors jockey for position in front of the submarine latrine, while a second camera keeps us informed of the submarine's depth." Still, Zebra get too much play in the issue (perhaps...
...time of crisis, the daily newspaper is at a disadvantage. Harvard indeed provided a few details in its strike coverage that were overlooked by the other local disseminators of information. Such things as the strange odyssey of Dean Peterson through those days, looking for someone to talk to; what was being played on the stereo blasting from Weld Hall; the attendance of Deans Watson and Glimp at the police briefing before the bust; the fact that, as lines waiting to board paddy wagons got longer, police let thirty or forty demonstrators go; the disappearance of Dean Ford's favorite pipe...