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Influence. The series, The World We Live In, explored space long before Alan Shepard, reached backward into prehistory for "The Earth Is Born," and sang of the earth's treasures in "Woods of Home" when ecology was an uncelebrated concept. A scrupulous series, the World's Great Religions, was praised by scores of religious leaders. These great series became the cornerstones of a major publishing phenomenon, TIME-LIFE Books. These continuing volumes now assure LIFE a measure of survival. In Hedley Donovan's phrase, "LIFE will go on in many ways and places, not least...
...certainty that what I was witnessing was part of the universality of God." When he looked at his fresh footprints in the almost ageless lunar dust, "I just choked up. Tears came. It was the most deeply moving experience of my life." Even the sometimes brittle Alan Shepard, America's first man in space, admits that he has changed: "I was a rotten s.o.b. before I left. Now I'm just an s.o.b...
...nervous breakdown." In contrast, other astronauts seem to have taken full advantage of the acclaim: John Glenn made a run for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, Wally Schirra appeared as a commentator and in commercials on television, Frank Borman took over a vice presidency at Eastern Airlines, and Al Shepard has made lucrative connections within Houston's business community. In fact, once the glow of fame wears off, some astronauts have found it painful to slip back into anonymity. "You know, the honeys stop doing handstands when you walk into a room, that sort of thing," says Mike Collins...
...quite good at isolating pockets and spasms and rumbles of life that the "straight" American uneasily feels are going on behind his back, or under his feet, or over his head. Shepard is a sensitive monitor of what might be called the Cross-Over Culture, the place and time where private black lingo, black clothing fashions, black drugs and violence, and black music become part of some whites' lifestyles. This is osmotic rather than overt, something in the mood and tempo of his work, and not in the presence of any black characters in his plays...
...Code. Understanding Shepard's continuing theme is a necessity if the playgoer is to glean what the author's latest play, The Tooth of Crime, is basically about. Currently having its U.S. première at the McWhirter Theater in Princeton, N.J., it features a hero named Hoss (Frank Langella), who is a rock star. He is also a kind of robber baron of the Western freeways. He is a "marker" who scores "kills" and controls cities as fiefs. Hoss also works within a system, never deviating from "the Code." His territory is allotted to him by unseen...