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Sometimes I Live in the Country
Review by Lois Wadswortl
Written by Frederick Busch,
published by David R. Godine,
1986.
Petey is a teenager with the blues.
Uprooted from the big city he
loved and plunked down in a hick
town, he’s mad. Separated sud
denly and without explanation
from his mom and now raised by
his ex-cop dad, he’s confused and
unsure of himself. This kid flirts
with some very serious ideas like
suicide. He goes out at night on
secret missions—sometimes just to
sit alone, in the darkness, but other
times to fantasize killing himself,
and a couple of times to play
dangerous games.
Frederick Busch showed a knack
for revealing the teenage boy
residing within contemporary man
in his delightful collection of
stories, Too Late American Boy
hood Blues, a couple of years
back. For Petey, however, the
question is not what kind of quirks
he’ll carry around as a man, but
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whether he’ll survive to manhood
at all. I’m not convinced that
Busch is as deft probing this
delicate issue as in pursuing some
of the lighter aspects of the
American male’s slow evolution to
maturity, although he certainly
knows how to get inside the
thoughts of a desperate boy. In
Sometimes I Live in the Country,
Busch tries to peel back another
layer of the masculine psyche and
reveal the deeper sources of sub
cultural and psychological de
velopment. He flounders a bit with
the material and doesn’t wholly
succeed, but he does illuminate a
kind of teen despair that many
adults seem to have forgotten.
Petey's dad works as the school
cop, and both Petey and Pop fell
in love with the school counselor,
Liz Bean. Miz Bean’s ability to
awaken feelings in both of these
guys helps them learn how to
communicate with each other.
She’s a strong, central character in
the story.
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I CITY OF EUGENE
NUCLEAR FREE ZONE ORDINANCE
April 30, 1987
Council Chamber/City Hall
7:30 p.m.
This is an opportunity to learn about Eugene's Nuclear Free Zone Ordinance and
the review process it is undergoing at this time, and to voice your opinions about
how that process should work.
On November 4, 1986, Eugene voters passed Ballot Measure 51, enacting the City of Eugene
Nuclear Free Zone Ordinance. The City Council subsequently appointed the Nuclear Free
Zone Task Force to review the ordinance and make recommendations to the Council. The
Council's charge to the Task Force is as follows:
As soon as possible, the Nuclear Free Zone Task Force is to advise the City
Council on four subjects:
1 Notification to public officials of the existence of the ordinance.
2 Placement of Nuclear Free Zone signs at City entrances.
3 Appropriate City response to questions about the legal problems raised by the
ordinance; appropriate City response to administrative issues; the effects of the
Nuclear Free Zone ordinance on the City's economic development and other
programs
4 Whether any changes suggested should be referred to the voters or acted on by
the City Council.
The Task Force is to determine the details of its work plan, but will submit to the
City Council an interim report and a final report and recommendation. A public
hearing before the Task Force will precede each report
The Task Force has begun its work, and would like to hear comments from Eugene citizens
concerning the ordinance and/or the charge to the Task Force. If you feel that there are
specific issues that the Task Force should consider in carrying out its charge, please attend
this public hearing and express your opinions to the Task Force.
Information about the Nuclear Free Zone Ordinance and Task Force will be presented to
participants at the beginning of the hearing. The hearing itself will continue until 9 p.m.
From 9 until 9:30 p.m.. Task Force members and staff will be available to discuss the
Nuclear Free Zone informally with interested citizens.
Any citizen who would like to place written comments on the record of the Task Force
should address them to: Nuclear Free Zone Task Force, City of Eugene, 777 Pearl St., Room
105A, Eugene, OR 97401. Individuals who would like more information about the ordinance
or the Task Force, or who would like to be added to the Task Force mailing list, should call
Glen Potter, John Porter, or Jody Miller at 687-5177.
Another element of the story
brings klansmen rednecks, under
the leadership of a racist, fire-and
brimstone preacher, into inevitable
conflict with Petey and Pop and a
mysterious black man they follow
home from the grocery store one
day. In the end, everyone is in
volved in a shootout confrontation,
the bigoted Reverend Staynes and
the gentle, educated Mr. O’Nolan
are both well-drawn, not-too
stereotypical characters.
But it is Petey whose problems
lie at the core of Sometimes I Live
in the Country, and Busch is in
touch with the way a teenaged guy
tries to sort out all the different
things going on in his life. One
afternoon, Petey stands up on the
hill near the house, thinking:
“Petey . . . tried to think about
himself. He couldn’t feel
anything important. He decided
finally to think about Lugene.
He couldn’t remember her face.
He remembered her breath. It
smelled sweet because it
smelled of bubble gum. She
thought he was immature. He
wasn’t allowed to hang around
town. He wasn’t allowed to go
to the roller skating place
because his father said bums
came there to sell the kids beer
and marijuana and pills. He
also said it didn’t have enough
exits and it was a firetrap. He
wasn't allowed to see R-rated
movies. He didn't have cool
boots. He wore the trash felt
lined Canadian boots his father
had bought him. He didn't have
a hatchet so he could work on
his trail and his bridge. He’d
have to use the axe and he’d
probably chop his toes off. "The
dumb die last,’ his father had
said. Well maybe.’’
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