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Show -10- and he even comforted himself In the thought that he had assis. ted many hundreds of his students in distinguishing reality from the appearance of reality, the reinvent from the irrela-vjpnt; yet just a little over a year earlier, in the spring just before the Professor and his wife sailed for the orient, he had experienced a moment of doubt and depression that he had carried with him during most of his travels. He had been listening on his car radio as he drove home one afternoon from the University. He was hearing accounts of the demonstrations of the Free Speech movement, coming to him from Berkeley. A tall, curly haired youth that the Professor had seen previously on television was shouting obscenities into the microphone. Much of what the youth said the Professor could agree with, but beneath the adolescent and flamboyant surface he could detect a current as unreasonable and malignant as had once come through the radio speakers from Berlin and Rome? Walking about the house, attempting to assess the damage done by his tenants, the Professor pondered the possibility that he, who had gained so much satisfaction from the world of youth (he had even published a magazine devoted to the works of young writers), had become an irrelavency to them and they to him. How else account for the deep depression he had felt? Or was the Free Speech movement just another abberation - a mirage like those of his youth? The Professor did not think long on these subjects. |