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...American sailor Robbie Doyle, who won the single-handed championships last year. led six Crimson qualifiers. Steve Govinsky. Abbott Reeve. David Little captain Joe Worth. and Rudd Istvan will also be eligible for the finals...
That same modesty underlies the book's most serious limitation, at least for readers who already share Cowan's disillusionment. Making of an Un-American looks behind us: its few implications for the future are cautious and vague. Cowan is, as Mark Rudd would doubtless sneer, an armchair revolutionary. He freely admits his inability to reduce the bankruptcy of reformism to personal revolutionary action. He brilliantly delineates how he got where he is, but takes us no further. His book ends with a disappointing abruptness after his revulsion for the Peace Corps comes to a climax. He is "un" -Americanized...
MIDDLE-CLASS America will recognize their older children in Paul Cowan much more readily than in Jerry Rubin or Mark Rudd, partly because it wishes to ignore hostility. For temperamentally, Cowan is not an angry young man. He is a kind, gentle man who has been fucked over by a system that promised it would listen to him. He came to radicalism with more sadness than fury. A possible reason for his mellowness (aside from the love of his private life, a small but vital part of the book) is that his Peace Corps years in Ecuador, 1966-7, were...
...Some of the names in the indictments constitute a Who's Who of rabid radicalism. Mark Rudd, 22, who helped organize the 1968 student protests at Columbia University and served as S.D.S. chairman there, is national secretary of the breakaway Weatherman faction. Bernardine Dohrn, 27, La Pasionaria of the lunatic left, is S.D.S.'s former interorganizational secretary; Jeffrey Jones, 22, now holds that position in the Weathermen. William Ayres, 25, is the group's educational secretary...
...humor and irony in the midst of turmoil. For example, one earnest young man attending the off-campus S.D.S. Liberation School proudly proclaims: "I feel that I have begun my personal liberation. For the last two weeks I haven't read the New York Times." And Mark Rudd, who completely liberated himself from Columbia, now gets up to $750 a lecture...