Word: variously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While drifting from various magazine jobs, moving intermittenly from freelancing to regular jobs, White covered European politics, economics and the Marshall Plan while working in Paris. There he collected material for a bestseller about the hearing of Europe. As things settled down abroad, White returned briefly to the States and got a taste of U.S. politics. An introduction was enough, and he returned to the States for good. To get back in touch, he traveled cross-country and learned less about America than he did about himself and his sublimated passion for politics...
...main activity there consists of drinking and watching the jungle reclaim the cottages. Naturally, this, uh, bucolic setting provides time for a lot of introspection, which is what just about everybody does. All of the characters involved get their chance to spin out brief but revealing vignettes about their various problems--sexual, social, existential. Here Alter really struts his stuff; the excellent vignettes display versatility that a young novelist, by rights, should not yet have. He uses multiple perspectives of the same event has a Faulknerian ring...
...Whites. I make no pretense to the people through whom I wish to make connections; I need not be sneaky and underhanded simply because I am Black. White students who are not friendly with one another have business-like study groups, organizations, and conferences with each other and various professors--just because I am Black, does this mean I cannot? Does this mean I won't succeed unless I approach all white people hidden behind the veil of brotherly love and friendship like a conniving Sammy Davis Jr.? Spare me, Mr. Kilson, I will not stoop...
Grapes [and various other crops] of wrath: Dartmouth people seem most incensed about the fact that the school is constantly being referred to as "out in the sticks...
...panel will consist of three members of the local media who will question the candidates on various campaign issues...