Word: aimless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Life on the Common," say the authors, "Is an experience of tedium, movement in aimless revolutions around the memorial pedestal, from which Lincoln surveys the new emancipation." There are a few rewards--easy sex, dope, and companionship. But people stay mostly because no matter how bad life is in Cambridge, It's better than what they have just left. Which is, usually, a broken home with no money about, or an alcoholic father who forced you to dress like a baby and fed you strong tranquilizers so you'd up. Or no home whatsoever...
...that Bill Kreutzmann, in spite of his technical skill, is unable to fashion a solo with enough continuity and development to hold the listener's attention. Without Constanten's classically-influenced keyboard work to give the number structure, the remaining instrumental portion of the song degenerates into a rather aimless, formless guitar exhibition by Garcia and Weir...
...each movement, one or two of the characters engage in a confessional, mingled with small talk, posturing, aimless reveries and recollections while the others remain frozen. Each person reveals a shadowy life which moves, like Leona's trailer, any way the wind blows, occasionally forming temporary relationships, and enduring the series of minor disasters inherent in such an existence. They have all, as one of them puts it, "lost the capacity for being surprised" all except for the wide-eyed innocent from Iowa. On this particular night, he's been initiated into the homosexual experience. Next time, he says...
Largely, Soledad Brother is the log of that descent. It catches Jacks in mid-flight in June of 1964. He was still in San Quentin then, but the first letter of the book reveals that already he was vastly different from the aimless small-time booster California had flushed into its prisons three years before. He writes to his mother...
...indignation, a rare quality in the gray of Washington's current power holders. Ed Muskie, the Polish immigrant tailor's son, is a true believer. That scarecrow frame, craggy face and gravelly voice make everybody think of Abraham Lincoln, and that is of huge appeal in this aimless age. But occasionally, there is the disquieting sensation that somehow he is trying too hard to be "Honest Abe," trying too much to reason with every voice that is raised against...