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...note for those with bulkier billfolds: the French food at Chez Jean (1 Shepard St.) tingles the taste of even those cosmopolitans finicky for delicacy. You couldn't say as much for Chez Dreyfus (44 Church St.), but there it is the customers that make the going or the gossiping good. President Bok eats there on his working days--how regularly that is is hard to say--and he tends to favor chopped sirloin with mushroom sauce (during a hot summer...
...Shepard's back-to-the-tribe ethic may make young commune dwellers think their generation has an ally...
Wrong. Setting up the hierarchy of his field-and-stream Utopia, Shepard writes: "The conception of both society and the future would be returned to the hands of elders-of adults -where it belongs...
...should be clear by now that Shepard is less of a scientist than a poet. He dreams of a future in which cities of no more than 50,000 people are located on continental perimeters. No farms, of course. One meets one's needs with microbial food (yeast plus two tons of petroleum equals one ton of pure protein). The heartland becomes a kind of hunting preserve. From earliest years, children are sent into this wilderness to be truly educated about their nature and their relationship to nature. Reading, at first, is "circumscribed and limited...
...Shepard's best points are side effects. No matter how narrow, his case for the relevance of man's past makes history-that neglected tense-seem important once again. And Shepard's argument that there is "no hope of knowing ourselves individually until we know ourselves as a species" may help with our galloping identity crisis. Even the farmers should be grateful for these small favors...