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Lonergan, who attended the congress sessions in a seldom-varying uniform of plaid sports shirt, slacks and windbreaker, listened attentively to both praise and criticism. At 65, with only one lung, he was remarkably energetic throughout the grueling week-long conference, dutifully setting aside spare moments to read many of the 700,000 words that participants had written about him. "I don't care whether they agree with me or dis agree with me," he said. "What matters is that they are here, talking with each other." Seminarian Joseph Collins, a well-to-do young activist who personally paid...
While Americans sometimes rewrite their history, they seldom reread it. Rubenstein's book offers an excellent opportunity to do just that. He is invigorating and honest in his ironies; for him, the K.K.K. and CORE share the same sort of motivation. He proceeds through the American Revolution, the Indian revolts, the Civil War, various agrarian rebellions and labor-management wars, before confronting his main topic: race riots, early and late. Rubenstein demonstrates that in each case the oppressed group's lust for independence-through integration or separatism-is so powerful, indeed biological, an urge that it will...
Erma rarely lectures and seldom ap pears on television. She spends most of her time on a 30-acre farm in Bellbrook, Ohio, a small town 10 miles south of Dayton. Besides her newspaper column (which was launched by the Dayton Journal Herald in 1965, is now syndicated by Publishers-Hall and last year earned her close to $50,000), she writes a monthly column for Good Housekeeping entitled "Up the Wall" and is working on her second book...
...answers every request. "I lie a lot," she admits. "I grab a magazine, find a recipe and say, This is an old family favorite.' " When it comes to criticism, she thinks that her husband Bill is overly frank. But, in fact, she is her own toughest judge, seldom satisfied with what she writes and rewrites. "But on the days that you click," she says, "it's great. It sure beats giving Tupperware parties...
McLean's book is an important addition to the literature of graffiti (from the Italian graffiare, to scratch), if only because this highly perishable form of folk expression has seldom been taken seriously. It is at least as venerable as the human ambition to defy convention and authority-and both convention and authority, down the ages, have diligently worked overtime trying to scrub the walls clean. They can never, of course, successfully purge the record of these irreverent footnotes, which proliferate in both written and pictorial forms. When archaeologists unearthed Pompeii beginning in the 18th century, they found scores...