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...then a teacher, now a writer. After his and Jones's books, anything to emerge from the perspective of either group of writers cannot amount to much more than a footnote. That is how important these books are, and that is why they must be dealt with in the broadest conceivable terms...
...lectures he is asked to deliver must concern "poetry, the term being interpreted in the broadest sense to include...all poetic expression in language, music or the fine arts...
Renata Adler is a Third Journalist. "I guess I am part of an age group [she is 32] that, through being skipped, through never having had a generational voice, was forced into the broadest possible America," she writes. "In a way, in culture and in politics, we are the last custodians of language-because of the books we read and because history, in our time, has wrung so many changes on the meaning of terms and we, having never generationally perpetrated anything, have no commitment to any distortion of them...
...people in civilized countries have claimed the privilege of being individuals. Formerly they were slave, peasant, laborer, even artisan, but not person. It is clear that this revolution, a triumph for justice in many ways . . . has also introduced new kinds of grief and misery, and so far on the broadest scale, it has not been altogether a success . . . For a historian of great interest, but for one aware of the suffering it is appalling. Hearts that get no real wage, souls that find no nourishment. Falsehoods, unlimited. Desire, unlimited. Possibility, unlimited. Impossible demands upon complex realities, unlimited . . . The idea...
Perhaps the broadest shift in rock fashion is the one exemplified by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and most of all by The Band. Though The Band calls it "just music?everything we've ever heard or done," the convenient label is country rock. However labeled, it is a turning back toward easy-rhythmed blues, folk songs, and the twangy, lonely lamentations known as country music. Country rock is also a symptom of a general cultural reaction to the most unsettling decade the U.S. has yet endured. The yen to escape the corrupt present by returning...