![]() ![]() I do not like Texas, people who go to the Zoo to be arty. I, for one, strongly support trees (and, in the larger sense, forests), flowers, mountains, and hills, also valleys, the ocean, wiliness (when used for good), good, little children, people, tremendous record-setting snowstorms hurricanes, swimming underwater, nice policemen, unicorns, extra-inning ball games up to twelve innings, pneumatic jack-hammers (when they’re not too close), the dunes in North Truro on Cape Cod, liberalized abortion laws, and Raggedy Ann dolls, among other things. ![]() The former are likely to be charmed, the latter doubtless confused and seriously put off, by such passages as this: Kunen has lately said that he was writing for the silent majority, but while the book certainly contains a message for the Vice President’s kind of folks-“We are at the worst as moral as you people, and why don’t you stop worrying about the length of our hair and start worrying about the issues we raise?”-the medium in which it is cast speaks to aging liberals rather than to the Great and Silent. ![]() Nevertheless, The Strawberry Statement is a frequently informative and often charming book. Kunen seems more at home with feeling than with theory, and is a better recorder than analyst even of that. One of the earliest and best-known of such documents is of course James Simon Kunen’s The Strawberry Statement, a book I missed on its original publication but to which I was drawn recently after seeing the movie based on it. ![]()
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