Word: shawn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Epstein, a 35-year-old political-science instructor at Harvard, was assigned to track down the truth of the police-Panther issue by New Yorker Editor William Shawn. He not only deflated the Garry figure but also took the press as a whole to task for failing to carefully check claims that enthusiastic partisans such as Garry make for their cause...
...Dance the Eagle to Sleep, her second novel, she follows the stress lines of U.S. society a few years into a bleak future. A very few years, because in the book's untroubled beginning it is not clear that anything has changed. The author introduces Shawn, an 18-year-old prep school senior who is a hugely successful rock singer: "In classes just enough juice flowed to light a few circuits; but when he was working with the group every switch turned on." Lucky Shawn. Recording profits turn into trust funds as he rides easy with the groupies...
Bucking the System. The author has more on her mind, however, than jollying readers with not-so-mock rock lyrics. A reference is made to a time when "the Army shelled Bedford-Stuyvesant . . . when the president has announced his policy of 'limited disciplinary retaliation' for uprisings." Shawn glooms about "the Nineteenth Year of Service" that hangs over his future. This scheme means 18 months in uniform for every 19-year-old, male and female. The Nineteenth Year was sold to the public as a liberal measure, because young pacifists were given a chance to serve in the pollution...
...When Shawn turns 19, he is attached to the Youth Services Bureau. He plays concerts, persuading other captive kids to groove on the state. Full of self-contempt, he deserts and is caught, then stockaded. He is now radicalized...
...last week's editorials did not represent an abrupt change for The New Yorker, even Shawn concedes that their tone may have revealed "deeper disquiet." In Shawn's view, this was because the events warranted it. "It was," he said, "one of the grimmest weeks that the country has ever lived through." Then he smiled slightly. "Despite that, there's also a lot of fun in the issue." Dick Nixon may not think so, unless he is in the market for a Rolls...