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...FRANCE REBORN by Robert Aron. 490 pages. Scribner...
...members-throughout the Deep South. Its meetings are often held in the banquet halls of metropolitan hotels, just as peaceably as the Jaycees. When race trouble flares, Klan security men, wearing white helmets, sometimes circulate through crowds, calming whites. Declares North Carolina Grand Dragon James R. Jones: "The reborn Klan is absolutely nonviolent. We don't allow rabble-rousers." Says Imperial Wizard Bobby Shelton of Tuscaloosa, Ala.: "We want the kind of people in the Klan like businessmen who build-not the kind of people who by their own inner emotions destroy what they are trying to build...
Such spiritual experiences range from heavenly to hideous: a number of subjects suffer through agonizing intimations of hell rather than of paradise. Most instant mystics feel that they have been "reborn," and have suddenly been given the key to existence, although their intuition usually appears in the form of an incommunicable platitude, such as "oneness is all." California Prison Psychologist Wilson Van Dusen, for example, imagined himself in a black void in which "God was walking on me and I cried for joy. My own voice seemed to speak of his coming, but I didn't believe it. Suddenly...
...Another organization sympathized with Caryl Chessman's plea for clemency. In all, five such organizations had formed in the spring of 1960. They were collectively known as "single issue clubs." A few observers, including professors David Reisman and Stuart Hughes, guessed that politics at Harvard were about to be reborn...
...When he succeeded the feckless Harold Stassen in 1953, Harnwell launched a fiveyear, $750,000 self-study, the most exhaustive ever attempted by a U.S. university. As a result of the study-and, as one dean puts it, of the fact that "the right people died"-Penn has been reborn...