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...playing out his role as the last New Englander, Bronson went to Japan, and was killed in a highspeed train crash. Even more devastating, his works and life fall into the hands of a professor-critic-and intellectual mortician-named Muldoon. A pugnacious Boston Irishman, Muldoon does a reckless reconstruct job on Bronson's Yankee soul-a rambling self-parody of scholarship which forms the loose frame of the novel. Understand Bronson, and you will understand America-"our present and our future." This is mad Muldoon's thesis...
...escalated to the political kidnappings of earlier this month. The FLQ was always a self-consciously underground group, rarely offering any explanation of what it did, never attempting to build an above-ground political base. Its acts were characterized in the Canadian media as those of mad and reckless terrorists...
...learn from what it called the unnecessary tragedy of Kent State, but it found basic lessons in the events for the Guard as well as for the students and the university. It said: "The actions of some students were violent and criminal and those of some others were dangerous, reckless and irresponsible. The indiscriminate firing of rifles into a crowd of students and the deaths that followed were unnecessary, unwarranted and inexcusable...
Playing with the type of reckless abandon generally associated with desperate seniors attempting to earn a 4-F deferment, the Lowell line effectively shut out the Adams rushing game and then pinched off the aerial attack...
What set last week's violence apart from similar assaults on police was the community's response. Law-abiding residents of Glenville had been seeking better protection from hoodlums and reckless drivers, realizing that blacks rather than whites are the most frequent victims of ghetto crime. Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, who is black, capitalized on this realization in a televised appeal to Glenville: "You cannot have this kind of violence and acts against police while at the same time a neighborhood is crying out for more law enforcement. You can't have it both ways...