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...that his poem is "really about the funeral of America. More than anything I can say it demonstrates my real feelings." Excerpt: "Halfway in mud and slush the microphones picked up/ It was raining on the houses./ It was snowing on the police cars./ . . . And my own mother was brave enough she looked/ And it was all right I was dead." Shapiro adds: "There is a time when 1 may be willing to risk my life, but for me now poetry...
...success because it was repressed. That would be doublethink. It was a success because it was beyond the law, because it represented a higher more self-sufficient consciousness; because it was thousands of people who really were brothers and sisters for the days of the demonstrations. And who were brave and strong. . . these things are so important...and who took care of their comrades, freeing them from police if they could, helping them if theywere wounded, keeping up spirits through the long hours in jail, singing songs even after you were tired and had a headache and would rather...
...Papandreou, March 27 and 29, the exiled leader of the fight against the Pentagon/CIA regime in Greece. What's all the more significant about this conversation is that it discloses a very sincere and human recognition of the mistakes of his own reformist government: mistakes which he, and the brave resisters inside Greece, are struggling to undo. A leftist journalist must continually and remorselessly make us aware of the extent and purposes of the imperialist activities of our government. This interview reminds us that we must not forget Greece and its struggle for liberation...
...Mayday tribespeople made a brave try to shut down the administration of a vicious war, and we who were not there owe them honor and emulation. Their action will be a failure only if their spirit dies in Washington...
...solution. Scientists at the National Heart Institute have developed a chamber containing a synthetic amniotic fluid and an oxygenator for fetal blood, and have managed to keep lamb fetuses alive in it for periods exceeding two days. Once their device is perfected, the baby hatchery of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World will be a reality and life without birth a problem rather than a prophecy...