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...increasing political activism and introspection is like the ripples of a stone thrown into a stream. But if that stone is big enough to redirect the stream's current, changes beyond the fighting and dying in Vietnam will take place...
...face it: mass-media newscasting [April 26] is now the global version of that old game, let's you and him fight. For profit, politics or publicity, we are perpetually assaulted, kicked in the adrenal glands, frustrated and depressed vicariously by the stream of reports on rape, riot and rebellion in places we know nothing about, will never see, can do nothing for, and which consume our energies and misdirect our concerns from our real individual responsibilities for job, family and community. One man's information is indeed another man's identification with militarism, license, revolt, sadism...
...prose is elegiac. He is, by his attention to it, paying homage to the world, preserving it, transfiguring it, declaring it all worth saving. One can quote at random from his novel, for every page has gems of observation, rhythmic and charming passages of prose. Only the transcribed stream-of-consciousness of Piet is ever dull or banal...
...Silver Stream...
...entire English countryside yielded 16,000 pounds. But instead of turning the money over to Harvard, the Society gave it to the Commissioners of the United Colonies to distribute. In 1651, as Samuel Morison put it, "President Dunster inquired of the Commissioners whether some small trickle of this silver stream might not irrigate the College Yard...