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High among their abilities, of course, is songwriting, and the album provides a handful of superb additions to the canon. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, called an "all-American bullet-headed Saxon mother's son," is a cunningly simple ditty that flashes with hints of America's burgeoning violence and shrinking mythology. Cry Baby Cry demonstrates anew the Beatles' knack for rendering an Alice-in-Wonderland vision in a melancholy modern vein. Dear Prudence superimposes Indian-style drones and swooping tones on childlike lyrics ("Won't you come out to play . . . greet the brand...
...work has an atonal quality that often sounds like Schoenberg's middle-period serialism. Yet Ruggles had no use for the strict twelve-tone row, which he called "a dog chasing its tail." He evolved his own technique. "You know that place in Sun Treader where the canon comes round and overlaps with its retrograde?" he asks. "It took me a year to make that turn...
Many states tend to keep their criminals hidden away, but Colorado's are highly visible. During the past two years, teams of convicts from the state penitentiary at Canon City have been al lowed to leave prison - each team with only one unarmed guard - to go on speaking tours throughout the state. As a result, Coloradans outside the walls are gaining an understanding of the convicts, and have begun to take an interest in their problems...
...Mclntyre's office announced that Karl had "requested a leave of absence." What the "leave" involves, according to the 50-year-old priest, is "a new career in Texas, possibly as a social worker or insurance salesman." Washington, D.C.'s Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle has issued "canonical admonitions"-formal warnings that, under canon law, are a prelude to possible suspension-to approximately a dozen priests who have spoken out against the encyclical...
...make them comprehensible, balancing them against each other and putting them in their complex historical perspectives. This sounds unexciting-and it is. Scarisbrick's study is no swashbuckler, but a sober, patient amassing of significant details. For the nonspecialist it becomes tedious at times, as when Scarisbrick expounds canon law or traces a dense web of diplomatic maneuvering; but in the end it adds up to a monumental mosaic that has all the quiet authority of first-rate scholarship...