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Show -341a-sionally commenting when a topic aroused her interest, doing so respectfully, but with a touch of passion that revealed her prjudices. She xas particularly vehement on the subject of Viet Nam, complaining of the slaughter, not only of the Vietnamese, but of the Blacks, who, she said, were disproportionately represented in the American military, particularly in the lower ranks where most of the casualties occured. What her ideas lacked in originality xas amply made up for by the childlike sincerety with which she held them. She was for labor, for the Blacks, for land reform, and for women's rights, tihe did not, at least not tonight, blame the Professor's generation for the ills of society as some of his students seemed to be doing. In fact, the Professor guessed, she had created a legend out of himself, who xas engaged in supporting the striking students, as she probably had with her other grandfather, xrho xas a longtime socialist. If she reverted at all, it xas after the Professor had gone to bed, when he heard the sounds but not the words of a quarrel coming from the next room, xrhere his tvro granddaugh-c ters had been fored to sleep together this one night. The sounds reminded him of similar sounds xrhen his oxm two daughters had been of this age, and when they had been forced to share a room because of the advent of some visitor. After all, they were, for all their accomplishments, still children. |
