CONTENTS 1
Joan Didion:Marrying Absurd 1
Eric Hoffer:The Role of the Undesirables 15
John Updike:Eclipse 43
James Baldwin:The Uses of the Blues 52
Shana Alexander:The Fine Art of Marital Fighting 80
John Holt:How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading 94
Russell Baker:Ben Was Swell,But He's Out 121
Martin Luther King:I Have A Dream 132
Joan Didion:On Going Home 146
Sally Carrighar: Ethology 159