Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, that the book is perfect. Halberstam has set his story in the presidential year 1988, a time of serious decay in America. The fuel shortage has dropped the United States into the second division of world powers, border wars are flaring among the states, and "radical youth" has swung to the right to begin a guerilla war against the blacks who, having attained the nervous prosperity of the middle class, have taken over the military and the FBI. It's all in good fun, really--although Halberstam's vision of America has an underlying serious tone, his tongue seems...
...writhe at the very mention of Miss America. But Christine knows that the other half will be watching her on TV that night, pleased by a familiar drama with its comforting suggestion, not entirely buried in unspoken sex and overt commerce, of a continual cycle of nurturing, of youth pliable and respectful, learning something, at least, from previous generations. The phone rings. It is Charles from Atlantic City. "Have you got your eyelashes on?" he asks...
...only saving consists of a prepaid burial-but when the rumors started spreading last week, a crowd of 300 curiosity seekers gathered in front of her house. So did 100 police, on horses and in riot gear, assigned to protect the house from vandalism. Said one skeptical youth: "If there is no money in there, why are all these police guarding the house?" By this time, Sheehan had fled to a convent for safety. It took police a full day of persuasion, plus 19 arrests, to convince the crowd that the whole situation was much ado about nothing...
...street corner, three masked youths demanded identification. Armed with small revolvers, they stressed that 'this is the people's fight.' While they are sympathetic to the Sandinistas, they said that few of them were actually members of the rebel organization. 'We all want Somoza to go,' added a youth, echoing a sentiment heard over and over in the town...
...story, makes events seem as though they happened long ago, or in some time less place. A reader may be surprised now and then when the book brings a reminder that the author was born only in 1939 and grew up in contemporary Montana. Still, Ivan Doig's youth is good news. An ex-newspaperman living in Seattle, he has a lot of time remaining in which to remember and write.-Frank Trippett