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...fourth book Robert Ward has attempted to update a half-forgotten relic of the '30s: the proletarian novel, with its idealized workers and smokestack suburbs. Ward's contemporary laborers are not moved by Woody Guthrie's lyrics; they rock to Mick Jagger and Aretha Franklin. They are not Dead End slum dwellers; they are Viet Nam vets and night-school dropouts. Their collars may be blue, but their lives run in the black: sheepskin jackets and vacations at the beach...
...HEROES and THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICES). Throngs (perhaps a million, according to police) cheering, clapping and even weeping at streetside. The guests of honor, some 25,000 strong, were a wonderfully motley montage of sloppy fatigues, permanent-press suits, blue jeans, camouflage twills, blow-dried hair, scraggly beards, relic berets. They added up to the biggest collection of people ever feted at one time in such a parade...
This week, the CRR, dormant for ten years and long considered a relic of a bygone ear, will case judgement on more than 100 students who participated in last month's eight-hour sit-in at the 17 Quincy St. headquarters of Harvard's governing boards and the blockade tow weeks ago of a South African diplomat in the Lowell House Junior Common Room...
Even Weinberger's detractors give him credit for upgrading the quality of the men and women in uniform. But critics complain that the B-1 is already obsolete, that the 600-ship Navy is a relic of World War II thinking and that military readiness has not improved noticeably in the Weinberger era. They also charge that in his haste to "rearm America," Weinberger has often let hardware dictate strategy, with a resulting surfeit of gold-plated weapons systems. Indeed, instead of getting a firm grip on the procurement process, Weinberger has, if anything, given more leeway to the Joint...
...anti-patriotic writings, including a formal denouncement of modern America's "inorganic industrial capitalism" and the glossy covers of Time magazine in his poem "America" have earned Ginsberg the name of political radical. A relic of the decade in which protest was on the rampage, he might easily be catalogued into a leftist file. But his work does not pretend to define a particular ideology. Rather than embracing a school of thought, he removes himself almost completely from the political realm. In the last poem of the book, "Capitol Air," he jabs both sides of the international ideologue struggle...