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Egged on by the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and eager to protect his political fortunes, Carter last winter sounded a clarion call for a return to draft registration. The allvolunteer forces are a dismal failure and registration is a military necessity, Carter told the American people in his State of the Union address. Now, although Carter's original proposal to register men and women between the ages of 18 and 26 is no more than a shadow of its former self, the president may be on the verge of a major victory...
...another, Bok and the gang in the Development Office have put the report--a clarion call for money to shore up Harvard's sagging financial belly--where it will reach the audience they hope will solve that problem: the alumni...
However, unlike Blondie or even Patti Smith, who often provide a similar message, Hynde writes songs too immobile to be enjoyable. This is not a "clarion-call for the Eighties" album: in fact, it has very little vision at all. Instead, it relies on the craftwork of an artisan--Scott--and the strange, appealing voice of this sophisticated woman to pull the music through. It just doesn't pull far enough...
...need of spit and brimstone in his long and varied career as iconoclast, professor, literary critic, and leftist. Back in 1934 he and Philip Rahv--a young Russian-Jewish emigre--launched Partisan Review. This leftist "little" magazine was to become the clarion voice for dissident American intellectuals and artists during the next two decades...
Brecht, an incredibly ambitious and fecund playwright, borrows Eastern and particularly Indian techniques for Chalk Circle. The inserted songs, somewhat reedily rendered by Stark; the stage-manager as chorus, marvelously narrated by clarion-voiced Andrew Garrett; the use of scene titles--all wed form with geography to good effect. Director Thomas Seoh might have exploited this exotic influence more extravagantly with stilts or wire-hoops. Seoh seemed a bit diffident about taking such directorial prerogatives...