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...just have Government propaganda sheets." Jack Anderson, in his turn, claims that since Watergate, "a lot of editors and reporters are wearing a hair shirt, trying to prove too hard how patriotic and responsible we are. The country was better served by a watchful press." Adds Columnist Tom Wicker of the New York Times, who criticized his own paper's restraint: "It is hard to see how a news organization-let alone so many -could have thought such a story ought to be withheld...
...next three year's choices--University of Oklahoma president J. Herbert Hollomon and writers Jimmy Breslin and Tom Wicker--ranged from inoffensive to creditable, with even more commendable choices, such as Madame Binh of Paris Peace Talks fame, who finished seventh in 1973, garnering some student support. In 1973, the first year that Allen passed up his chance, the Class committee came up with playwright Arthur Miller as the next best thing. Miller accepted, and as if to disprove Death of a Salesman's thesis that "attention must be paid," he read from his introduction to Garage Sale, a collection...
...Amnesty. Like many other witnesses, Wicker believes that the bloodshed and the brutal reprisals by guards and state troopers would have been postponed and possibly avoided if only New York State's Governor Nelson Rockefeller had agreed to come to Attica. At the time, Rockefeller said he did not believe he had the constitutional power to grant blanket amnesty to the rebels-especially since one of the guards had already died in the hospital after his skull was fractured at the beginning of the riot. In Rockefeller's action-a euphemistic order to "reopen the institution"-Wicker sees...
Elsewhere, though, the author speculates that Rockefeller refused to come to Attica simply from fear of "voter reaction." During the crisis, Wicker had only one personal contact with the Governor. When he called him to describe the seriousness of the situation and to appeal for a meeting, the Governor suddenly interrupted him with what Wicker regarded as unnerving campaign enthusiasm: "I know you've all worked hard and taken great risks and I appreciate it. I really do. It's just great . . . Just great." Rockefeller was not the only one wirh an eye on his constituency. Black Panther...
...cast of characters in A Time to Die is enormous. On both sides of the wall, gibberish and eloquence, madness and reason know no race, class or educational background. As Wicker watches political power dissipate through the state's bureaucracy and firepower build on the walls surrounding D-yard, the outcome-even in hindsight-looms with the inevitability of Greek tragedy. The impact of Wicker's book shatters the convenient forgetfulness that cocoons disturbing memories. Even his thin, novelizing technique, which includes writing about himself in the third person singular and larding the narrative with bits of autobiography...