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...blues revival was giving middle-class white kids a cathartic rush by hearing about the troubles of poor Blacks. On another, the revival was disproving Lead-belly's famous statement that "never has a white man had the blues, 'cause nothin' to worry about." The kids may have been "alright," but from Vietnam to the H-bomb, they had plenty to worry about. These broad social issues were not the sort of thing blues singers had sung about in the past. White musicians like Bob Dylan, The Band, and The Rolling Stones added new irony and social critique...
...love as never having to say you're sorry--for handing in a paper late--you are probably in the majority at Harvard. There actually exist a few, alright it's about 3500, students who have not yet found a long-term partner at Harvard for mutual "sharing and caring," let alone for exhilarating erotica. (Cupid is, after all the god of erotic love.) Not surprisingly, most students do not want to admit the sad state they are in and declined to have their names used for this article. Here are a few thoughts from cynics all over the campus...
...Well, uh, alright there, uh, Jaaack...
...bathing suit is only the beginning. If it's Sunday, reading material is key. If you've managed to lug the entire Sunday Times, Globe, Washington Post (which you've had to special order) all the way from the foreign automobile/Jeep to the beach, you've done alright. Extra points go to anyone who can bring all of these plus the lastest Frederick Forsythe novel, anything by Art Buchwald or Andy Rooney or Agatha Christie, plus The New York Review of Books. Do not bring suntan lotion (you're here for two months, so you'll get sun eventually), anything...
...could hardly expect him to be easy on me when he was cracking down on Western nations all around the world to make sure that they live according the the standards we in America,--alright maybe not me--take for granted. Why, didn't he tell South Africa that they better shape up if they wanted to keep the West's seal of approval? You still belong, he assured them, but time was running out on that there apartheid. There was that speech Tuesday. "If yas still want to be part of this here West, you'd better...