Tell It Like It Is, Baby'.

The author and his wife were living the dormitory life of the American Academy in Rome and the author was much preoccupied with writing a novel, with literary concepts, with reviewing his own life's resources for literary creation, with the experience of discovering a foreign culture in which the old structures and guides that sustained his thoughts, emotions and conduct at home were so relaxed, whether awake or sleeping, that it was as though he was living in a barely controlled chaos. The author attempts to write an essay on the subject of desegregation and the Southern Congressmen's defiance of the Supreme Court.