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With this axiom firmly in mind we can begin to understand the peculiar vitality and uniqueness of rock and roll. Of all the forms of music, rock is the least demanding of a particular environment and atmosphere. Thus, I can see that "Revolution 9," which is hardly rock 'n' roll, might turn out, some dark and wintry night, to be right (it hasn't happened yet for me) but I know that "Ob-la-di Ob-la-da," which is pure rock, is right nearly all the time. This instant impact that rock 'n' roll has is due in part...
There is nothing quite like British baronets; they are not members of the peerage, yet they are definitely members of the upper class. One old definition has it that "a baronet is one who has ceased to be a gentleman but has not become a nobleman." That particular axiom required some revision as of last week. For Britain's newest baronet, Sir Ewan Forbes of Brux, eleventh of his line, began life as a girl...
First there are the sets. "They can't go out whistling the scenery" is the axiom of the musical theater. Yet audiences will at least go out whistling at the scenery. John Box's sets-the largest ever made in England-are miraculous recreations of higher and lower London. Here are the scrubbed Georgian facades of Bloomsbury, the madding, clangorous market streets, the crowded mass of blackened chimneys and gables in the Thamesside jungle. All, all are lifted from England of the 1830's and set down without so much as a cobblestone out of place...
...convey their positions through the ballot, the most effective weapon they have. A conscientious citizen can hardly pass off that role easily. Surely the U.S. right not to vote, or to write in sure losers, also carries with it a duty to weigh the consequences, to consider the axiom that inaction is a form of action. A single vote for President is so minuscule among millions that hectoring any individual to vote may seem futile...
...press reports them, such pronouncements usually wind up in puny paragraphs between the obituaries and the recipes. Above all, candidates give short shrift to many issues because the people themselves are uninterested. Talk about the gold outflow or trade protectionism makes audiences nod and yawn. It is a political axiom, and one of democracy's dilemmas, that only one issue per campaign, or two or three at most, can grab and hold the public...