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About 50 years ago my grandfather was travelling in upstate New York. Somebody asked him if he wanted to go to a local picnic--what he thought he heard was "clam bake." When he got there, there were a lot of people in white sheets and they were burning a cross. He ran from that place as fast as he could. I am afraid I feel the same way about the conference. Sincerely Yours, David Lelyveld
...complacency that offers no conclusions. It is not even art-for-art's sake, but mundanity for the sake of... who knows? Impressions of community life in the small mining town--a carnival-like communion service where wafers are taken to accordion music, a songfest saluting beer, a fishing picnic where one woman asks June "have you ever seen a sucker?"--take on, for all their sociological insights, a grotesquely pointless irreality. Why suddenly does a marching band parade down Main Street? The impersonal curiosity with which these studies in "naturalism" are offered conveys a sense of uneasy intimacy similar...
TELL THAT TO the MDC. And while you're at it don't leave out any of the particulars. Mention the desert-like riverbanks. A picnic there is like an afternoon at the beach. Revere, that is. Maybe the MDC could take a hint from those fabulous gardeners at the Boston Common; the only grass one ever finds down at Riverbend is the illegal kind...
...their natural time? At a moment when rock fans of the First World undertake to cure a biblical scourge like the Ethiopian famine with 24 hours of music bounced off a satellite, AIDS, implacable and thus far incurable, comes as a shock. It arrives like a cannibal at the picnic and calmly starts eating the children...
...coloreds (people of mixed race) and the Indians. They have to sit together to discuss their future. If they do not, the explosion we have been fearing will take place. When it happens--not if, but when--it will make the French Revolution look like a Sunday school picnic. Black and white will perish, not by the thousands as in Zimbabwe, but by the hundreds of thousands. We have to move at breakneck speed, with only a possibility of averting...