Word: unicorn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your excellent article "The Search for the Unicorn" [AMERICAN SCENE, Sept. 29] told the public what the infamous hippie Ira Einhorn did to my sister Holly and how he has been on the run since 1981, hiding and laughing at the rest of us. Our father parachuted into Normandy on June 6, 1944, and was one of the first Americans to help liberate France from Nazi tyranny. Our mother was stationed in France with the Red Cross. Do the French now repay these real debts by releasing my sister's murderer? The spirits of Holly and my parents...
...ever had. Einhorn wasn't on a weight-loss program back then. Cross a bear with a man, take away all grooming implements and you get Ira, who considered himself too mythic to bathe regularly or use his given name. Einhorn means "one horn," so he called himself the Unicorn. When it wasn't fair maidens he was after, it was the company of nags like Rubin, Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg. He ingested enough drugs to kill a whale. He organized be-ins. He called himself a planetary enzyme and "sort of smelled like a hoagie with onions...
...ideas but "nothing to hold onto," recalls Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Claude Lewis. "Total b.s.," concurs Joel Bloom, president emeritus of the Franklin Institute Science Museum. But with knowledge stolen from years of voracious reading, Einhorn charmed many into believing the planet was warping into new frontiers and only the Unicorn could lead them into the Age of Aquarius. Whether it was politics, environment or computer science, "he was three or four steps ahead of you at every turn," says Norris Gelman, one of Einhorn's attorneys. As if hypnotized, the suits responded with free lunches, grants, consulting contracts, four-figure...
...years on the lam. He looked healthy, untroubled, his face ruddy. He played with a silver goatee and casually acknowledged Flodin, who smiled from the back of the courtroom, wearing a bright layered get-up that looked as if it were stolen from the closet of Pippi Longstocking. The Unicorn had had a long time to write himself a new speech, but it must have been 16 years of writer's block. Painting himself large and important, vintage Ira, he dropped such names as Alvin Toffler, claimed he discovered "the Internet before the Internet existed" and said his life...
...predict that the island of Hong Kong will not be engulfed by China; it will expand into the mainland. The dragon will not devour what the unicorn left. J.K.P. ARIYARATNE University of Kelaniya Kelaniya, Sri Lanka...