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...rest of his life. He was a mediocre student, and a mediocre athlete headed for an undistinguished career at Harvard until the war intervened. At 19, he headed for France. His four-year stint in the American Ambulance Corps presumably spurred the development of his macabre sensibility, but Geoffrey Wolff offers virtually no explanation as to why experiences shared by so many young men had such a unique impact on Crosby...
...Your Erroneous Zones, Dyer (7) 4-World of Our Fathers,Howe (4) 5-Scoundrel Time, Hellman (6) 6-A Year of Beauty and Health, Beverly & Vidal Sassoon (5) 7-A Man Called Intrepid,Stevenson (3) 8-Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, Kearns (8) 9-Black Sun, Wolff 10-Loretta Lynn, Lynn & Vecsey...
BLACK SUN by GEOFFREY WOLFF 367 pages. Random House...
...Geoffrey Wolff reports in this thoughtful and very readable biography, Crosby, who was 31, had been promising for years to commit suicide. He spoke and wrote about death in the dreamy, love-struck manner of a man talking about the sloop he is going to buy when he finishes putting his kids through college. To honor death, he wore a black carnation in his buttonhole. He saw suicide as a triumphant adventure, as a poet's most splendid poem, as a giggle, as a glorious stunt and especially as an explosive union with the godhead...
...Rather briskly escorted him across the floor. Morton was halfway there before he thought better of it and escaped. While the Mississippi delegation caucused in a CBS trailer, Mike Wallace was locked outside, but three young CBS pages inside-sons of Commentator Moyers, Correspondent Roger Mudd and Producer Perry Wolff-took in every word. They were deprived of a major scoop only because the delegation failed to reach an agreement...