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...SAMMLER'S PLANET by Saul Bellow. 313 pages. Viking...
There is nothing of the charlatan in Saul Bellow, and perhaps it is time to admit that he is a seer. The author of The Adventures of Angle March, Henderson the Rain King and Herzog observes his age with no excessive charity. Chaos? Yes. Senselessness? Yes. Disintegration and despair? Be the author's guest. The dour view itself is not remarkable. Well-wrought chaos and subtly evoked senselessness have never been in such abundant literary supply. A reader thinks, with varying respect, of Mailer, Heller, Vonnegut, Cheever, Barth...
...conflicts. Though forming a diffuse movement rather than a well-defined school, they have a growing influence on the study of history; at last December's meeting of the American Historical Association, their candidate for president, Staughton Lynd, the ex-Yale professor who now works with Radical Organizer Saul Alinsky, received nearly one-third of the vote...
Emancipated Executives. Consciously or not, Pillsbury is staging a trial run for an idea of Saul Alinsky's, the radical organizer. Alinsky says that he is trying to induce "some leading left-wing economists and emancipated corporation executives" to help him form an organization called Proxies for People. It would solicit proxies from foundations, mutual funds, union welfare funds, churches and universities, and vote them to compel corporations to pursue such social goals as ending pollution. Alinsky says that he is getting voluntary proxies every day from individual sympathizers-and telephone calls from worried and presumably unemancipated corporation executives...
GUARDS: RON SAUL, Michigan State, 6 ft. 2 in., 245 lbs., and CHUCK HUTCHISON, Ohio State, 6 ft. 4 in., 242 lbs. Crack guards are always a scarce commodity on the college market; most of them are too light to make it in the pros. Not Saul. "A big, tough battering ram who will block and rise to block again," says a scouting report. Hutchison, one in Woody Hayes' long line of tough, power-blocking tackles, will probably be converted to guard because "he has great speed for a big man and the savvy to pull and protect...