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Shock-Rock. Today Peter lives alone in a Manhattan apartment, which he describes as a "cave"; it is cluttered with books, 3,000 recordings, hi-fi equipment, and huge pop posters of Frankenstein and the Beatles. He has lately developed a passion for the "rugged primitivism" of rock 'n' roll, recently turned up at an avant-garde concert to play his Bachian treatment of the Beatles' song Yesterday. Attired in the accepted uniform of Hans Brinker cap and rumpled corduroy jacket, he goes to Greenwich Village to hear shockrock, stays up half the night in the coffeehouses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pianists: The Boy Who Hates Circuses | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

Though Indira's responses to many of India's problems have often been weak, this time she did not cave in. She insisted that under the constitution the issue was one for the states to decide separately, but offered to set up a national panel to study the situation. But nothing has placated the Hindu extremists. Naked sadhus rampaged in the shadow of Parliament as part of the national "All Party Cow Protection Movement," and two holy men have vowed to fast to the death unless she bows to their demand. Last week, after two months of hunger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: A Plea for the Tree | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...descendant of Miles Standish) to her most recent The Witch of Endor, which reflects her current preoccupation with the themes of old age and death. Graham, reports Leatherman, is a voracious reader, pours through volumes of philosophy, poetry, mysticism and fairy tales, looking for a magic phrase like "cave of the heart" that will act as a catalyst for a new work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Lonely Voyager | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

That rare beast, the house literary magazine, has come yawning with some grace from its cave. Two stories, eight poems, and seven photographs form a slim Winthrop House organ, modes in pretensions as well as bulk...

Author: By Jeremy W. Heist, | Title: The Lion Rampant | 11/23/1966 | See Source »

Wilson's story, and incidentally the rest of Lion Rampant, should not be missed. That rare beast, the house literary magazine, has come yawning with some grace from its cave...

Author: By Jeremy W. Heist, | Title: The Lion Rampant | 11/23/1966 | See Source »

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