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...Without Marx or Jesus, a Succes de scandale in France and a best seller stateside, Jean-Francois Revel proposes that America owns an exclusive option on the Age of Aquarius. But his flaccid prose, chaotic presentation, and unsupported generalizations fail to convince me. After rejecting the idea of America as a fascist and imperialist state, he ends up creating an equally far-fetched image. He tries to prove that the United States possess all the necessary preconditions for the world revolution: an obsession with modernity, unrestricted access to information, and an army of radical crusaders. Along the way he solemnly...
Mary McCarthy, grande dame of the old American left, assures us in the afterward that Revel is only a pamphleteer. Recognizing this we can all chuckle indulgently at his excesses and inadequacies. After all, he exploits them in the name of the polemic. But petty Gallic charm cannot substantiate his vision...
...Beverly Sills [Nov. 22]. She can send sparks up your spine with that incredible voice. For those spectacular talents, most of us would accept an amalgam of megalomania, immorality, the frizzles and flat feet; but happily we don't have to. To experience a Sills performance is to revel in her joyous nature, her exuberance, her graciousness and that leavening of mischief. Sills is summer ir full bloom...
NONFICTION 1. Honor Thy Father, Talese (1) 2. Eleanor and Franklin, Lash (2) 3. Any Woman Can!, Reuben (3) 4. Beyond Freedom and Dignity, Skinner(4) 5. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Brown (5) 6. The Last Whole Earth Catalog, Portola Institute (6) 7. Without Marx or Jesus, Revel (9) 8. Tracy and Hepburn, Kanin (8) 9. The Vantage Point, Johnson (7) 10. The News Twisters, Efron
...Without Marx or Jesus, Revel (7) 10. The Show Business Nobody Knows, Wilson