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Despite the Harvard Music Department's benign neglect, musical activity in Cambridge survives. Last spring was particularly frenetic when half a dozen major works were presented in the space of eight weeks. This year should be as busy...
...Hall, the day it was seized, chairing the meeting that was supposed to decide what to do with the liberated territory. He stood in the center of the big room on the second floor, surrounded by boisterous rebel comrades, focussing the debate with the combination of total confusion and benign serenity that was peculiar...
Later, he said, "Richard Nixon was elected in 1968 because people like you sat on their hands... And so we have Warren Burger in place of Earl Warren. And so we almost had George Harold Carswell. We have the Southern strategy and benign neglect...we have the Commander-in-Chief going out of his way to support both William Calley at My Lai and Nelson Rockefeller at Attica...
Oates manages the role of the fantasist faultlessly. His eyes gleam, his smile shifts. Sometimes his face seems to be under two separate spells, one side of it benign, the other twitching with intimations of violence. And occasionally Oates will let all his defenses collapse, as when GTO sits in a North Carolina roadside diner and abstractedly orders "champagne and caviar and chicken sandwiches on toast." Suddenly there is a despairing glimpse of a schizophrenic life cracked by thwarted dreams...
Then Dylan racked himself up on a motorcycle and went into that famous retreat for almost two years. When he reappeared his life was less troubled, his music quieter and more benign. When some friends from the folk music magazine Sing Out! managed to sit him down for a talk in 1968, they asked him, among other things, about a book he was said to have written, called Tarantula. "It wasn't a book," Dylan replied,"It was just a nuisance. It didn't have any structure at all." The book got to the page-proof stage...