Show 2E hin The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday June 26 1988 Tom Hayden reflects on the radical 1960s den: He wanted he says to make "a mark on my times" The same qualities of intelligence and intensity that enabled him to do so in the movement are also present in this book A onetime journalist — he was editor of the Michigan Daily — and author of previous books on Newark and North Vietnam he is an excellent comreporter able to plex situations and events with unusual clarity His central thesis is that the violence that is generally believed to have led to the movement's downfall was the result of a kind of generational betrayal namely the "uncaring rigidity" of governmental authority when faced with legitimate demands for change This thesis is not so much argued as shown in a number of concrete instances such as the murder of black NAACP member Herbert Lee in McComb Miss in 1961 despite the appeal of civil rights workers for federal protection for Lee the evening before Even though the government grew less passive in the South its position hardened in Vietnam until eventually the only meeting between the government and the opposition was in the streets Describing the "ugly atmosphere" in a detention cell in Chicago in 1968 he notes that among the detainees were several young SDS-er- s who would shortly become Weathermen but "whereas my first taste of violence in the South allowed me to hope for a response from the national government their introduction to mindless sadism was coming at the convention of the Democratic Party and the Johnson administra- Reunion: A Memoir by Tom Hayden Random House 539 pp illustrated $2250 If whoever r controls the! past cumruis the future as George Orwell suspected it is perhaps 'pf ! not surprising that in America 8 i turreni te - iueo- - £ place the defi- muon ot me radical 'l y j- 1 (j Tom Hayden "1960s" is a key intellectual prize On one side is the view associated with neoconservatism in general and Allen Bloom in particular that the decade was responsible not only for the collapse of American power abroad but the destruction of culture at home On the other side is the view of such scholar-veteran- s as Tod Gitlin and that whatever its other excesses — and these are universally acknowledged — "the movement" helped create a new consensus about the limits of foreign intervention and the necessity of domestic participation that finds its most vital expression in the broadening political base of Jesse Jackson With the publication of Reunion this debate is now further enriched by the concrete detailed reflections of Tom Hayden then perhaps the movement's single most effective spokesman and organizer now a member of the California Legislature How he got from one place to the other and what it means socially and politically as well as personally is the subject of his memoir Born in 1939 in Royal Oak Mich to Irish Catholic parents Hayden like many of his contemporaries spent the years following his graduation from the University of Michigan in 1961 seemingly everywhere simultaneously: the South the Newark ghetto the streets of Washington and Chicago North Vietnam and finally California where in the ruins of his old order he found the beginnings of the new If the outline of his autobiography could serve almost as generational profile however the particulars are unique for at virtually every point at which the events that gave the period its special character unfolded he seemed to be naturally in the lead Not only ' did he help found Students for a Democratic Society — he wrote the first draft of the Port Huron statement Not only did he travel to a country with which the United States was fighting — he brought back the first prisoners of war Not only did he organize the demonstrations at the Democratic Convention in Chicago — he was one of the victim-heroe- s of the subsequent conspiracy trial Many of the things that happened to other people during the '60s happened to Tom Hayden but they happened at a different level During the 1967 riots in Newark Gov Richard Hughes sought — and followed — his advice After his return from Hanoi with the POWs he was called to Washington to confer with Averell Harriman He had the respect of many politicians including Robert Kennedy Many people came to the movement through guilt about affluence or to discover a new identity but not so Tom Hay i tion" To those who believe movement damaged the country such distinctions among successive incarnations of SDS may seem at best irrelevant but events have causes as well as consequences The shift in political temper from the beginning to the end of the decade was extremely important and Hayden's examples go a long way to explain why it occurred The analysis of violence is not the only valuable aspect of the book Another is the original use of documents retrieved under the Freedom of Information Act These are not grouped together as illustrations but embedded in the text at the chronological point that they were generated conveying an accurate — and highly telling — impression of the simultaneity of the actions of movement and government throughout the decade Still another is the summary of the numbers of those killed injured and arrested during the 1960s protests a list surprisingly no one else has bothered to compile Less satisfying to a degree are the aspects of the book dealing with private matters While there is more than enough detail to justify the implication that the "reunion" of the title involves per- sonal as well as political reconcilings there is no doubt that this is the autobiography of an essentially political man If Reunion is the first campaign book of some year it can be said with reasonable confidence that not only is the debate on the meaning of the 1960s not yet over it has barely started — Elinor Langor for The Los Angeles Times SILVER in the Golden State that the IS Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey: Harper & Row 516 pp $1895 We have a great novelist living on the planet with us and his name is Peter Carey To be "great" to be "major" Dame Helen Gardner reminds us in an essay on TS Eliot the writer's work "must have bulk he must attempt with success one or the forms other of the greater which tests his gifts of invention and his subject matter variation must have universally recognized importance and he must treat it with that imaginative authority we call originality he must have something at once personal and of general relevance to say on important aspects of human experience" To these lofty criteria let me add — with perfect certainty — a great novelist must open up the reader's heart allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory — and shame and shabbiness — of what it is to be human Those novelists who try to be great grunt and strain at this project it is like lifting weights to them: "I have vaulting ambition" a "great" American novelist told me once as dandruff dusted his shoulders and his throat swelled — as if writing were the high jump and a gold medal would prove him great But the purest safest surest mark of greatness in a novelist is ease Stendahl danced Melville danced Carey dances Oscar and Lucinda is Carey's third novel His first Bliss unfolded silken bolts of lustrous prose took man and the land as its theme was set in the present and made you heartsick when you finished because you could never read it again for the first time Illywacker grandly summed up Grim yet compelling portrait of Picasso Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Stassinopulos Huffington Simon and Schuster 568 pp $2295 Picasso The name rings with the meanings of the 20th century More than anyone else Pablo Picasso's art — its fracturing of form its disjointing and rearranging of the human figure — became the paradigm the supreme symbol of this violent century's impact on the human psyche But there is little of the century and little of Picasso's art in Arianna Huffington's biography of the painter little of the creator of the subtitle but much of the destroyer It is a grim portrait of the artist as destructive misogynist of a man who found more pleasure in betraying and brutalizing people especially women than he did in his art Born in 1881 in Santiago Spain Picasso was a child prodigy A special and privileged child from birth he never stopped exploiting that position In adolescence a trauma seems to have been partly responsible for his sense of God as evil and his obsessive fear of death themes that marked not only his art but his personal life as well During Picasso's younger sister's ultimately fatal bout with diptheria Picasso made a bargain with God He promised to give up painting if God would spare her life "And then he was torn between wanting her saved and wanting her dead to that his gift would be saved" Huffington writes On his sister's death Picasso was torn by a guilt that seems to have transferred itself into a hatred of both God and women and an inability to let anyone get close to him SILVER 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Young Oscar having tested that fruit becomes an Anglican then a clergyman and we are with him deep in the concerns of Victorian England Across oceans and continents in rural Australia Lucinda grows up fatherless her mother an intellectual and friend of Marianne Evans-Georg- e Eliot broods over her lot Lucinda's mother loathes farming but stays after her husband's death despite the condescending farmers around her When she dies she has sold off her land and leaves Lucinda a fortune (Stolen money of course since the land belongs to the blacks and Lucinda knows her fortune is filthy lucre) The plot? Oscar and Lucinda are secret compulsive gamblers They meet on shipboard in a cunning e where she confesses lovely to this incredibly lovable clergyman all the times places and ways in which she has had occasion to commit the sin of gambling to which he answers: "Our whole faith is a wager we bet that there is a God We bet our life on it We calculate the odds the return that we shall sit we with the saints in paradise must gamble every instant of our allotted span We must stake everything on the unprovable fact of His set-piec- existence" From then on this pair of soul mates devote themselves together to poker to fan-tato horse racing to dice — and to the bringing of Christianity and civilization to a land where the country is "thick with sacred stories more ancient than the ones he carried in his leather Bible" Through heroism idealism and murder Peter brings Christian stories that an aborigine will later (not unkindly) remember: saw Jesus Mary Jo"My aunty seph Paul and Jonah — all that mob she never knew before" Oscar and Lucinda's great enterprise is based on misunderstanding and some of that "vaulting" ambition Lucinda has acquired a glassworks (and the passages on the properties of glass rival Melville's reflections on the whiteness of the whale) Her whole thought is to build n sweat-slipper- Such events mark every page of this book which is a virtual catalog of betrayals ruined lives mental illness and suicides among those whose lives crossed his Francoise Gilot one of his mistresses tells of Picasso grinding a lighted cigarette against her cheek when she refused to move in with him In another incident when Dora e Walter deMaar and manded he choose between them he refused and told them to fight it out They did literally and he later called this "one of my choicest memMarie-Theres- ories" In particular Picasso seemed mt gait Calif y a monument a structure something" different She has constructed £ model of a glass church Oscar be- - lieving his beloved to love another clergyman upcourtry offers to deliver it to that Godforsaken outpost But outside their idealism and great growing Aus-- ' tralia exists humming its own tune And the men who must guide Oscar are murderous brutes His idealistic quest or errand becomes an excursion into hell: Earlier when he has! first seen Lucinda's model for that church he'd asked "Do you not imagine 'iat our Lord laughs togethT er with his angels?" And Lucinda knew herself helplessly in love But out on parched flats Oscar is faced with another dreadful surmise: " He had bet there was a God He had bet on Goodness He had bet he would be rewarded in paradise He had bet he would carry this jewel of z church through the horrid bush anjl have it in Boat Harbor by Easter Then he saw in the corner of his mind the possibility that the glass church was just the devil's trick" Oscar knows horribly that his life is "riddled with sin and compromise' There's so much richness here The sweetness of the lovers The goodness within the stifled English clergyman The perfect irrationality of human behavior as it plays itself out in minor characters- The splendid narrative strategy in' which the Victorian device of the au- thor speaking over the heads of turns by the end into something entirely different and surprisstar-crosse- d r ing But mostly if you liked Julian So" rel climbing that ladder if you likecf Ishmael squeezing that whale rail and understanding human friendship if you wish that you too along' with Proust could conjure up thif taste of a madeleine as it melts in your mouth you're going to read Oscar and Lucinda you'e going to love it you're going to re- member it forever Great novelists like the saints don't all live in the past They're here now and they're smiling — Carolyn Sec for The Los Angeles Times deli-ciousl- y to take pleasure in destroying bright lively intelligent women In 1939 after four years with Maar one of his most famous models Picasso began to beat her And s writes Huffington "More than conof what he did in 1939-4sisted of deformed women their faces and bodies flayed with fury His hatred of a specific woman had become a deep and universal hatred of all women" Picasso's behavior never changed His psychologically brutal relationships continued until his death in two-third- 0 1973 Huffington's book is certain to be controversial It raises fundamental questions for scholars and critics as well as for ordinary art lovers Is Huffington's grim portrait exaggerated? Is there and should there be a connection between the artist's life and the way we look at his work? 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