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...student committee intent on raising protest above rampage and turning the vast resources of the university against the war. At a rally of 15,000 in the university's Hearst Greek Theater, talk of militance and confrontation was booed. Chicago Seven Defendant Tom Hayden turned up and tried to blend the war, the Black Panthers and the Kent State murders into one rhetorical attack on the U.S. His audience was not moved. Berkeley Law Professor Frank Newman received more sympathy when he recommended action to pass state antiwar laws and congressional measures to cut off funds for the Cambodian...
...canny blend of firmness and sympathy, Yale long escaped the student tumult that disrupted other Ivy League campuses from Columbia to Harvard. But last week Yale was brought to a halt by a coalition of black students and local black militants; they were protesting the forthcoming New Haven trial of Bobby Scale and seven other Black Panthers, who are charged in the killing of a fellow Panther and alleged police informer. The result, for one of the nation's great founts of reason, was an astonishing display of emotion: 75% of Yale's 4,600 undergraduates quit classes...
...this were all, Boyle's book would be merely a timely polemic on an important and fashionable topic. But Boyle, a staff member for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, is more than an enraged critic. He is an accomplished journalist-naturalist with a curious blend of love, knowledge and perspective that help turn his "natural and unnatural history" of a river into what should become a small classic...
...moderation, and this moderation holds for styles. Whereas Family's first album, Music in a Doll's House, , was primarily high-pitched in the Traffic genre, a gradual trend toward more restrained, more cohesive music is evident in their recent work. The progression has lead finally to a blend of country rock, English blues, and traditional rock on an album released last month, A Song...
...more faithful descriptive artist. Birkner spared no blood or gore, and no detail escaped his eye. At the same time, he had a charming ability to enhance the pageantry and develop from the hunt's complicated rituals a sense of overall design and patterning, that same delicate blend of description and naivete that marks the best of the Currier and Ives illustrations...